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Micromeria graeca (Greek Savory) |
Micromeria graeca (LAMIACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Micromeria graeca (L.) Bentham
Published in (L.) Bentham ex Reichenb., op. cit. 311 (1831) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Lamiaceae
Lindl. (=Labiatae) (The Mint Family)
36 species from the Lamiaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Greek Savory, Pink Micromeria | Maltese name(s) : | Sagħtrija Griega | Status for Malta : | Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent
Scarce Rare
Very Rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: CHAMEOPHYTE (dwarf or small shrubs)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Protected by law: schedule VIII of legal notice LN311/2006. (Exploitation subject to management measures) | Red List (1989) : | This species has a threatened status and is listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Mar-Jul | Colour of Flowers: | Violet |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Botanical Description: |
Sparsely pubescent to hirsute or hispid dwarf shrub 10-50 cm with many erect or ascending, usually simple stems. Leaves 5-12 x 2-7 mm, the lower ovate, acute, the upper lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with revolute margins. Verticillasters shortly pedunculate with (2-)6-18 usually erectopatent, shortly pedicellate flowers, usually about equalling the subtending leaves; bracts mostly not more than 1/2 as long as calyx. Calyx (2-)3-5 mm, villous in throat; teeth 1/3-3/4 as long as tube, lanceolate-subulate, unequal. Corolla 6-8(-13) mm, purplish. Nutlets obtuse or shortly apiculate. |
Distributional range: |
Mediterranean region, C. & S. Portugal. |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
the Balaeric Islands, Corse, Crete, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Greece, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Turkey (European part) |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
AE(G) Ag Al Bl Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju LS Lu Ma Sa Si Tn Tu(A E) |
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