Key to Origanum

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(For a list of species in Origanum, use the above link.)

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1. Calyx 

funnel-shaped 

Widening from the base more or less gradually through the throat into an ascending, spreading, or recurved limb; often applied to a fused calyx or corolla.

, 2-lipped, 3 upper 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

 fused to form a single upper lip, lower lobes well developed ..... O. ×majoricum

1' Calyx tube-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes equal ..... O. vulgare subsp. hirtum

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