Micromeria myrtifolia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Nepetoideae
Tribus: Mentheae
Subtribus: Menthinae
Genus: Micromeria
Species:

Micromeria myrtifolia Boiss. & Hohen. in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient. 5: 19 (1844).

Homotypic
- Micromeria juliana var. myrtifolia (Boiss. & Hohen.) Boiss., Fl. Orient 4(2): 570 (1879) [antedating Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 590 (1881)].
- Satureja myrtifolia (Boiss. & Hohen.) Greuter & Burdet, Willdenowia 14: 305 (1984 publ. 1985).
Heterotypic
- Micromeria lycia Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 94 (1885).
- Micromeria minoa Coustur. & Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 63: 12 (1916 publ. 1917).
- Micromeria obtusiflora Gand., Fl. Cret.: 80, n.° 1419 (1916).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Europe Regional: Southeastern Europe Greece, Kriti, Türkiye-in-Europe Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Boissier, P.E. 1844. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum. ser. 1, no. 5. 91 pp., Lipsiae [Leipzig]: B. Hermann. MDZ Reference page.

Rechinger, K.H. 1944 ("1943"). Flora Aegaea. Flora der Inseln und Halbinseln des ägäischen Meeres. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwisenschaftliche Klasse 105(1): 1–924. PDF Reference page.

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