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Satureja laxiflora C. Koch Satureja spicigera (K. Koch) Boiss. Lamiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Micromeria spicigera K. Koch; Micromeria alternipilosa K. Koch; Satureja alternipilosa (K. Koch) K. Koch

Local Names

Georgia: Satureja laxiflora: – tq’is kondari, – mindvris kondari (Meskhetian); S. spicigera: – onch’o, – ench’o (Kvemo Acharian), - tchvin (Svanetian), – mekondrool (Svanetian), – tq’is kondari (Imeretian), – kondara (Rachian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Savory.

Botany and Ecology

Satureja laxiflora C. Koch

A slender, sparingly and loosely branched annual, 10–15(20) cm high. Stems branched with very short retrorse white hairs. Leaves spread over stem, narrow, linear to linear-lanceolate, or sublinear to suboblong, 10–20 × 1–3 mm, tapering into an inconspicuous petiole, gland-dotted, with few simple hairs. Inflorescence in verticillasters located at the leaf axils, 1–2 (3)-flowered, on slender peduncles 5–15 mm long, more often 0.5–0.8 cm; upper flowers subsessile, the lower ones on pedicels ca. 0.5 cm long; calyx infundibular at first, becoming campanulate, 3 mm...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  3. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  4. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Satureja laxiflora C. Koch Satureja spicigera (K. Koch) Boiss. Lamiaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_65

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