Origanum munzurense
Origanum munzurense
Munzur mercanı
Subshrub. Stems ascending or erect, to 50 cm, brown, glabrous. Leaves sessile or subsessile, entire, ovate, to 3 x 1,5 cm, coriaceous, glandular-punctate, glabrous, broadly acute. Spicules slender, cylindrical, to 3 x 1 cm, erect or patent. Bracts imbricate, 8-10-paired, obovate, 7,5-8 x 4,2-7 mm, yellowish-green, glabrous, rounded-mucronate or acute. Verticillasters of 2 subsessile 3-flowered cymes, terminal flower developed, lateral ones abortive. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 13-veined, 1-lipped, 4,7-5 mm, pubescent, throat with ring of hairs; upper lip divided into 3 subequal, broadly triangular 1,5 x 1 mm teeth; lower lip consisting of 2 equal, triangular 1,5 x 0,7 mm teeth. Corolla 2-lipped, to 9 mm, white, not saccate, pubescent; upper lip 2,5 x 3 mm, shortly bilobed; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe c. 2 x 2 mm, laterals smaller; c. 1,2 mm. Stamens 4, very unequal; upper 2 short, included, filaments c. 1 mm; lower 2 exserted, filaments c. 4 mm; anther thecae divergent. Style shortly exserted, c. 9mm at anthesis,later elongating. Fl. 8. Steppic slopes. 1700 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
