Origanum onites, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 172

6. O. onites L. , Sp. Pl. 590 (1753).

Dwarf shrub; stems up to 60 cm, erect, densely papillose and hirsute. Leaves 5-22 x 4—12(—17) mm, ovate to orbicular-ovate, rounded or cordate at base, acute or shortly acuminate, entire or remotely serrate, papillose and villous, glandular-punctate, with the veins somewhat raised on lower surface; lower leaves petiolate, the others sessile. Spicules 4-10 mm, ovoid, oblong or prismatic, very compact, forming a terminal, dense corymb 2-8(-10) cm in diameter. Bracts 3-3-5 mm, slightly exceeding the calyx, the lower ovate, acute, the upper orbicular-ovate, obtuse, puberulent. Calyx 2-75-3 mm, 1-lipped, with a deep slit on one side, ovatespathulate, entire or minutely 3-dentate, subglabrous, glandularpunctate, ciliate. Corolla 4-5-5 mm, white. Nutlets c. 1 mm, oblong-ellipsoid. 2« = 30. Mediterranean region. Cr G r?Hs Ju Si.