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Genus: Origanum
Family: Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae) subfamily: Nepetoideae tribe: Mentheae.
Nomen number: 25913
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:590. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions:
13 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- European oregano (Source: Ency CNatIn
) – English [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- oregano (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- pot marjoram (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- wild marjoram (Source: BSBI
) – English
- wild marjoram (Source: Dict Gard
) – English [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- wintersweet (Source: Websters Dict
) – English [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- marjolaine (Source: Zander ed17
) – French [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- marjolaine sauvage (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- origan (Source: Zander ed17
) – French [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- origan vulgaire (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- brauner Dost (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- Dost (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- gewöhnlicher Dost (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- Oregano (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- wilder Majoran (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- manjerona-brava (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- orégano (Source: Names Soukup
) – Portuguese [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
- orégano (Source: Names Soukup
) – Spanish [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
Eastern Asia: Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Pakistan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
East Europe: Estonia; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Cultivated:
Other:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Ietswaart, J. H.
1980. A taxonomic revision of the genus Origanum (Labiatae).
Leiden Bot. Ser.
4:106–123.
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Padulosi, S. et al., ed.
1997. Oregano.
In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. (Prom Underused Crops)
14:1–182.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Silva, L. et al.
2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Origanum vulgare L.:
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- Flower: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images 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.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?25913 (09 February 2010)
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