Distribution
Native to:
East Aegean Is., Greece, Kriti, Sicilia, Turkey
Introduced into:
Cyprus, Tunisia
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Majorana onites (L.) Benth. in Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 339 (1834)
- Origanum album Salisb. in Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 85 (1796), nom. superfl.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Majorana cretica Mill. in Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4.: 829 (1754), opus utique oppr.
- Majorana cretica var. silvestris Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 119 (1866)
- Majorana orega (Vogel) Briq. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 307 (1896)
- Majorana oreja Walp. in Repert. Bot. Syst. 3: 697 (1844), orth. var.
- Majorana smyrnaea (L.) T.Nees in M.F.Weihe & al., Pl. Offic., Suppl.: 1 (1831)
- Onites tomentosus Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 3: 86 (1837)
- Origanum heracleoticum W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 4: 305 (1833), nom. illeg.
- Origanum orega Vogel in Linnaea 15: 78 (1841)
- Origanum pallidum Desf. in Tabl. École Bot., ed. 3: 395 (1829)
- Origanum smyrnaeum L. in Sp. Pl.: 589 (1753)
- Origanum tragoriganum Zucc. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 227 (1841), nom. nud.
- Schizocalyx smyrnaeus (L.) Scheele in Flora 26: 575 (1843)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2012). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 4: 1-431. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Hand, R. (ed.) (2015). Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus VIII. Willdenowia 45: 245-259.
- Vladimirov, V., Dane, F. & Kit Tan (eds.) (2013). New floristic records in the Balkans: 23. Phytologia Balcanica 19: 373-399.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Hand, R. (ed.) (2015). Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus VIII. Willdenowia 45: 245-259.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- K.H.S., Gard. E. Afr.: 170 (1995)
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0