Taxon: Origanum majorana L.

Common names:

• pot marjoram   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• sweet marjoram   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• marzanjush   (Source: Ency Herbs ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• marjolein   (Source: Ency Herbs ) – Dutch
  
• marjolaine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Majoran   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• maggiorana   (Source: Ency Herbs ) – Italian
  
• manjerona   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• mayoran sadovyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• mejorana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mejram   (Source: Ency Herbs ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Turkey [s.]

• sometimes naturalized, especially in Mediterranean region

• widely cultivated

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Ietswaart, J. H. 1980. A taxonomic revision of the genus Origanum (Labiatae). Leiden Bot. Ser. 4:83–85.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lawrence, B. M. 1992. Chemical components of Labiatae oils and their exploitation. In: Harley, R. M. & T. Reynolds, eds., Advances in labiate science. 400.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vermeulen, N. 1999. Encyclopaedia of Herbs.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Origanum majorana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Origanum majorana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Origanum majorana.

Synonyms:

• (=) Majorana hortensis Moench
  
• (≡) "Majorana majorana (L.) H. Karst., nom. inval."
  

Check other web resources for Origanum majorana L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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