Satureja L.
Creators: name: Bordbar, Firouzeh
name: Mirtadzadini, Mansour
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Satureja

description: KEY TO THE SPECIES OF Satureja L. FROM FLORA OF IRAN
1. Annual ...................................................................................................................................... S. hortensis L.
— Perennial suffruticose .................................................................................................................................. 2
2. Corolla tube exserted from the calyx ........................................................................................................... 3
— Corolla tube non-exserted from the calyx .................................................................................................... 8
3. Corolla blade white ........................................................................................................ S. sahendica Bornm.
— Corolla blade not white (violet, purplish-lilac, rarely yellowish) ................................................................... 4
4. Plants covered with pubescent hairs, leaves broad (obovate, ovate or wide elliptic) ........... S. khuzistanica Jamzad
— Indumentum not as above, leaves narrow .................................................................................................... 5
5. Plants non-aromatic, corolla slender, tube diameter ≤ 1 mm ....................................... S. avromanica Maroofi
— Plants aromatic, corolla non-slender, tube diameter ≥ 1 mm ....................................................................... 6
6. With lemon like fragrance, verticillasters always distant, calyx tubular-campanulate .................................. ........................................................................................................................... S. macrosiphonia Bornm.
— With Satureja hortensis like fragrance, Verticillasters distant or approximate, calyx tubular .......................... 7
7. Lower leaves often broad, calyx teeth straight ................................................. S. longiflora Boiss. & Hausskn.
— Lower leaves not broad, calyx teeth recurved .............................................................. S. macrantha C.A.Mey.
8. Plants caespitose ................................................................................................................ S. isophylla Rech.f.
— Plants non-caespitose .................................................................................................................................. 9
9. Leaves broad (obovate-oblong or obovate-spathulate) ................................................. S. intermedia C.A.Mey.
— Leaves not broad (linear-narrow elliptic, linear-oblanceolate) .................................................................... 10
10. Length of calyx> 4 mm, length of corolla> 7 mm ................................................... S. mutica Fisch. & Mey.
— Length of calyx <4 mm, length of corolla <7 mm ................................................................................... 11
11. Calyx campanulate, 2.5-3 mm, corolla blade white ........................................................ S. bachtiarica Bunge
— Calyx tubular-campanulate, 3-3.5 mm, corolla blade violet ............. S. kermanica Payandeh, Bordbar & Mirtadz.
description: Published as part of Bordbar, Firouzeh & Mirtadzadini, Mansour, 2024, A morphological re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Satureja L. (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae) from flora of Iran, pp. 45-63 in Adansonia (3) (3) 46 (7) on page 47, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2024v46a7, http://zenodo.org/record/11058077