Origanum_cordifolium

<i>Origanum cordifolium</i>

Origanum cordifolium

Species of shrub

Origanum cordifolium is a subshrub with suberect, cylindrical, hairless, often purplish shoots, 40–60 cm high. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or irregularly dentate, stalkless, ovoid to cordate, 1–2 x 0.8–2 cm, leathery, hairless, acute. Flowers on pendulous spikes, zygomorphic, corolla bifid, whitish or pinkish, 1–4, subtended by purplish-green, large bracts. Flowers June–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets.[1]

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Habitat

Moist, shady rocky slopes, by streams and roadbanks on igneous rocks at 300–900 m.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus found In a limited area of the Paphos Forest in Roudhia valley (Alonoudhi, Steni etc.)

References

  1. [1]
    The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
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