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46. Zataria Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. Ser. 1, 5: 18. 1844. Benth. in DC., Prodr. 12: 183. 1848; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4: 561. 1879; Briquet in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 1, 4, 3A: 313. 1896; Mukerjee in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. 14, 1: 92. 1940; Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 150: 552. 1982.
I.C. Hedge
Subshrubs, much branched, aromatic, with slender flowering stems, with an indumentum of simple eglandular hairs. Leaves simple, entire, small, suborbicular, densely gland-dotted on both surfaces. Inflorescence of numerous distant congested verticillasters borne in upper leaf arras. Flowers subsessile, very small, often male-sterile. Calyx tubular-ovoid, membranous, not bilabiate, 5-veined, 5-angled, with 5 equal teeth. Corolla inconspicuous, scarcely exserted beyond calyx teeth, white; upper lip bilobed; lower lip of 3 subequal lobes. Stamens 4, subequal not exserted; thecae biloculr, glabrous, bilocular. Style shortly bifid. Nutlets ovoid, smooth.
Without any obvious generic ally. Monotypic.
Lower Taxon
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