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

• Zataria multiflora Boiss.

Related Synonym(s):

• Zataria bracteata Boiss. = Zataria multiflora Boiss.
• Zataria multiflora var. elatior Boiss. = Zataria multiflora Boiss.