Satureja spicigera
Satureja spicigera
Çorba kekiği
Procumbent soft shrublet, often diffuse, with inflorescences arising from trailing sinuous stems. Stems recurved-pubescent on 2 opposite sides, hairs few or absent on the other 2. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 8-20 x 2-3 mm, emucronate, glabrous, green, bearing short axillary shoots. Inflorescence oblong to linear, 3-10 cm, secund. Verticillasters usually approximate, pedunculate, laxly 6-flowered. Floral leaves 1-1.5 x calyces. Calyx manifestlysub-bilabiate, 3-4 mm, ± pubescent, lower 2 teeth 1-1.5 x tube, upper teeth only 1/2-3/4 x lower pair. Corolla 6-8 mm, white, ± exserted from calyx, limb ample. Stamens long-exserted from corolla. Nutlets 1.2 mm, broadly oblong-ovoid. Fl. 8-9. Eroded dry banks and rocky places, ledges, screes, 20-1500 m.
W. Caucasia; N.W. Iran? Euxine element.
