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

description: Satureja hortensis L.
Species Plantarum: 568 (Linnaeus 1753). — Type: described from S France and Italy (Hb. Linn. 723/9)
Satureja officinarum Crantz, Institutiones Rei Herbariae 1: 526 (Crantz 1766).
Satureja brachiata Stokes, A Botanical Materia Medica 3: 300 (Stokes 1812).
Satureja pachyphylla C.Koch, in Linnaea 17: 295 (Koch 1843). — Clinopodium pachyphyllum (C.Koch) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 515 (Kuntze 1891).
Satureja laxiflora C.Koch, in Linnaea 21: 668 (Koch 1848).
Satureja hortensis L. var. includens Schur, Enumeratio plantarum Transsilvaniae: 531 (Schur 1866).
Satureja hortensis L. var. exserens Schur, Enumeratio plantarum Transsilvaniae: 531 (Schur 1866).
Satureja filicaulis Schott ex Boiss., Flora Orientalis 4: 562 (Boissier 1879).
Satureja hortensis L. var. grandiflora Boiss., Flora Orientalis 4: 562(Boissier 1879). — Clinopodium hortense (L.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum P1antarum 2: 515 (Kuntze 1891).
Satureja litwinofwii Schmalh. ex Lipsky, Flora Caucasi: 108 (Lipsky 1899).
Thymus cunila E.H.L.Krause, In Flora von Deutschland ed. 2, 11: 172 (Krause 1903).
Calamintha hortensis hort. ex F.T.Hubb., The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 6: 3082 (Bailey 1917).
Satureja hortensis L. var. speciosa Náb, Iter Turcico-Persicum. 3:44 (Nábělek 1926).
Satureja hortensis L. var. depauperata Thieb., Flore libano-syrienne 3: 49 (Thiébaut 1953).
Satureja altaica Boriss., in Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariya Botanicheskogo Instituti Imeni V.L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR 15: 326 (Borissova 1953).
Satureja densiflora Zein., in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1969 (2):15 (Zeinalova 1969).
PHENOLOGY. — Flowering July to September, fruiting August to October.
DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY. — Widely cultivated over the country or naturally grows on dry or moist soils of NW of Iran (Fig. 4B).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Iran •W Iran, Isfahan Prov., Pol-e Zamankhan; 03.VII.2004; Mirtadzadini 3806 (MIR) • Kordestan Prov., Auraman valley, SW of Bölbar village; 35°14’22.5”N, 46°17’30.7”E; alt. 944 m; 04.X.2017; Mirtadzadini 3807 (MIR) • SW of Auraman valley, Shiradarra area; 35°13’50.5”N, 46°16’18.5”E; alt. 1645 m; 05.X.2017; Mirtadzadini 3833 (MIR) • NW Iran, West Azerbaijan Prov., Khoy to Maku; 28.VIII.2008; Mirtadzadini 3808 (MIR) (naturally grows) • Ardabil Prov., Givi; 15.X.2007; Mirtadzadini 1958 (MIR) (naturally grows). Armenia • S Armenia, Syunik Province, 4 km to Goris from Sisian; 39°29’16.9”N, 46°17’33.5”E; alt. 1800 m; 06.IX.2019; Mirtadzadini 3809 (MIR).
DESCRIPTION
Aromatic, annual, 10-25(-35) cm high, all parts of the plant covered with short simple appressed hairs and sessile glands. Stems erect, covered with short white spreading glandular and eglandular hairs, length of lower internodes 15-35 mm, length of inflorescence internodes 20-40 mm. Leaves linear or linearlanceolate, obtuse, conduplicate, cauline leaves 10-30(-40) mm long, l-4(-5) mm wide, floral leaves similar in shape to the cauline leaves.Verticillasters distant, congested to lax, 2- to 20-flowered, flowers often sessile, peduncle up to 4 mm (if present), pedicel up to 2.5 mm (if present). Calyx green, campanulate, 3-5 mm, teeth narrow linear to subulate, slightly unequal, up to 3 mm. Corolla lilac, pink or white, 5-10 mm, tube included in or somewhat exserted from calyx. Nutlets widely elliptic, brown to dark brown, 1.2-1.3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide.
REMARKS
This species has a typical form with densely flowered verticillasters which is widely cultivated in Iran as a medicinal as well as pot-herb. The second form with lax-flowered verticillasters described as Satureja laxiflora in Flora Iranica (Rechinger 1982) and Flora of Iran (Jamzad 2012), naturally grows in NW of Iran.
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 52, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2024v46a7, http://zenodo.org/record/11058077