Ziziphora tenuior L.

Annual herb ; up to 15 cm high , aromatic . Stems erect , corymbose to ascending , simple or branched , becoming greenish or purplish at maturity , covered with a dense indumentum of short eglandular retrorse hairs . Leaves 7-25 x 2-6 mm , lanceolate to linear-lanceolate , elliptic , short petiolate , base cuneate , apex acute , margins entire , ciliate , scabrid on both surfaces , prominently veined below , sparsely gland dotted ; petiole absent to 23 mm . Inflorescences on 6–8 axillary in false whorl in terminal spike , 2 . 0–2 . 2 cm long , forming a dense oblong spike from near the base of stem . Flowers bisexual , irregular , blue-violet , pink or lilac ; calyx 6-8 mm , narrow tubular , scarcely 2-lipped , with short and long spreading eglandular spreading hairs and oil globules ; teeth short , triangular ; corolla pale lilac to lavender or lilac , 8-10 mm , tube slightly longer than the calyx ; upper lip subentire , lower lip 3-lobed ; stamens 2 , included in the upper lip ; staminodes present ; anthers with small ... appendage . Fruit nutlets , ± 1 mm , oblong , granulate . Seeds small with erect embryo . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

No Data

Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Faldermannia tenuior (L.) Ter-Chatsch.
Ziziphora acutifolia Montbret & Aucher ex Benth.
Ziziphora parviflora (Trautv.) Des.-Shost.
Ziziphora serpyllacea Ten.
Ziziphora spicata Lag. & Rodr.