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Origanum cordifolium
Species of shrub From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Origanum cordifolium is a subshrub with suberect, cylindrical, hairless, often purplish shoots, 40–60 cm high. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or irregularly dentate, stalkless, ovoid to cordate, 1–2 x 0.8–2 cm, leathery, hairless, acute. Flowers on pendulous spikes, zygomorphic, corolla bifid, whitish or pinkish, 1–4, subtended by purplish-green, large bracts. Flowers June–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets.[1]
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Habitat
Moist, shady rocky slopes, by streams and roadbanks on igneous rocks at 300–900 m.
Distribution
It is endemic to Cyprus and found In a limited area of the Paphos Forest in Roudhia Valley (Alonoudhi, Steni, etc.)
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