Origanum cordifolium
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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.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}}
Habitat
Moist, shady rocky slopes, by streams and roadbanks on igneous rocks at 300–900 m.
Distribution
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.arkive.org/origanum/origanum-cordifolium/|title=Origanum videos, photos and facts – Origanum cordifolium | ARKive|publisher=arkive.org|access-date=2014-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009065545/http://www.arkive.org/origanum/origanum-cordifolium/|archive-date=2014-10-09|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=165258|title=IUCN Red List maps|publisher=maps.iucnredlist.org|access-date=2014-08-24}}
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