Chaenorhinum origanifolium (Chaenorhinum origanifolium)
Description
Chaenorhinum origanifolium is a species of plant flowering plant belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae. Some experts classify it within the Plantaginaceae family. It is a perennial herb, which reaches a size of up to 40 cm in height, non-cespitose, glabrous or glandular-pubescent in the lower third, densely glandular-pubescent in the upper part, with whitish appearance. Stems relatively thick and rigid to thin and flexuous, erect, ascending or lying, simple or branched from the base, purple at the base. Leaves of 4-23 × 2-13 mm, petiolate -pecific 1.5-4.5 mm-, from suborbicular to oblanceolate, from acute to obtuse, attenuated in the bas. Inflorescence with 2-25 flowers, lax. Flowers with 5-30 mm pedicel -10-32 mm in fruiting-, straight, erect or erect-patent, slightly accentuating. Calyx with linear-spatulate, subacute, subequal separations, of a purplish green, with dense glandular-pubescent appearance on the external face. Capsule 2.5-5.5 mm, subglobose, shorter than the calyx, with subequal, smooth, glandular-pubescent locules. Seeds of 0.5-0.9 × 0.4-0.5 mm, crested, dark brown or black; longitudinal crests, sinuous, continuous, sometimes slightly anastomose, smooth, higher than wide.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Lamiales
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Family: Plantaginaceae
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Genus: Chaenorhinum
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