Ziziphora
{{short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Ziziphora capitata.jpg
|image_caption = Ziziphora capitata
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Ziziphora
|authority = L.
|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=215816 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
|synonyms =
- Faldermannia Trautv.
- Zwingeria Heist. ex Fabr.
}}
Ziziphora are a genus of annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. Ziziphora has aromatic leaves; they are found in open and often xeric habitats in Southern and Eastern Europe, North-West Africa and Asia to the Himalayas and Altai Mountains.{{cite web | url=http://www.kew.org/herbarium/keys/lamiales/key/Interactive%20key%20to%20the%20genera%20of%20Lamiaceae/Media/Html/Ziziphora_L.htm | title=Ziziphora L. | publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | work=Factsheets | date=2008 | access-date=8 May 2014}}
Distribution
- Southwestern Europe
- Southeastern Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Northern Africa
- Macaronesia
- Siberia
- Middle Asia
- Caucasus
- Western Asia
- Arabian Peninsula
- China
- Mongolia
- Indian Subcontinent
- Iran (north khorasan)
- Ziziphora aragonensis Pau - Spain
- Ziziphora brantii K.Koch - Caucasus
- Ziziphora capitata L. - Balkans, Black Sea region, Middle East, Central Asia
- Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam. - Siberia, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Central Asia, Himalayas, Southwest Asia
- Ziziphora galinae Juz. - Turkmenistan
- Ziziphora hispanica L. - Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
- Ziziphora interrupta Juz. - Tajikistan
- Ziziphora pamiroalaica Juz. - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Xinjiang
- Ziziphora pedicellata Pazij & Vved. - Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- Ziziphora persica Bunge - Iran, Turkey, Caucasus, Crimea, Central Asia
- Ziziphora puschkinii Adam - Caucasus
- Ziziphora raddei Juz. - Caucasus
- Ziziphora suffruticosa Pazij & Vved. - Uzbekistan
- Ziziphora taurica M.Bieb - Crimea, Turkey, Syria
- Ziziphora tenuior L. - Ukraine, Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Middle East
- Ziziphora vichodceviana Tkatsch. ex Tulyag. - Kyrgyzstan
- Ziziphora woronowii Maleev - Caucasus