Satureja gracilis
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Description
Slender, prostrate herb.
Leaves membranaceous, broadly ovate or subrounded, 1-2 by 0.8-1.5 cm, acute, base rounded or broadly cuneate, entire, margin elsewhere crenate-serrate, glabrous on both sides except on the nerves;
Flowers in lax, many-flowered verticillasters in the axils of upper leaves, sometimes aggregated in a racemose or subcapitate terminal inflorescence.
Distribution
Ambon present present present, Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Borneo present (Sabah present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present ‒ present); Thailand (Thailand present), Bonthain present, Burma present, Central & SW. Celebes present, Central W. Sumatra present, Continental SE. Asia present, E. Asia present, Headquarters Taman Negara Sabah, c. 1560 m alt present, Masamba present, Preanger Mts present, S. Japan present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Timor present, W. Java present
Continental SE. Asia (Assam, Burma, Thailand, and southern China) to E. Asia (S. Japan, Formosa); in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, ? Central W. Sumatra, W. Java (Preanger Mts), Central & SW. Celebes (Masamba, Bonthain), ? Moluccas (Ambon), Borneo: Sabah (Headquarters Taman Negara Sabah, c. 1560 m alt., R. H. Willemse 605, in disturbed places). A rare plant.
In L there is a KORTHALS specimen labelled 'Melintang', a place in SE. Borneo; Mt Belintang is in Central W. Sumatra. MIQUEL recorded a KORTHALS specimen from Sumatra, but it has never been collected again in that island. Further there are abundant specimens on 3 sheets from ZIPPEL, but it remains uncertain where these were collected, notes adding either Moluccas (which must then be Ambon) or Timor; from the name in sched. 'Cunila moluccana Zp.' it would appear that they came likely from Ambon if these labels belong to the material in question, Mt Salhutu attaining an altitude of c. 1000 m.
In L there is a KORTHALS specimen labelled 'Melintang', a place in SE. Borneo; Mt Belintang is in Central W. Sumatra. MIQUEL recorded a KORTHALS specimen from Sumatra, but it has never been collected again in that island. Further there are abundant specimens on 3 sheets from ZIPPEL, but it remains uncertain where these were collected, notes adding either Moluccas (which must then be Ambon) or Timor; from the name in sched. 'Cunila moluccana Zp.' it would appear that they came likely from Ambon if these labels belong to the material in question, Mt Salhutu attaining an altitude of c. 1000 m.
Citation
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 42
NAKAI 1911 – In: J. Coll. Sc. Univ. Tokyo: 149
MUKERJEE 1940 – In: Rec. Bot. Surv. India: 99
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 968
H.W. Li, 1974 – In: Acta Phytotax. Sin.: 222
BOLD. 1916: Zakfl.: 110
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 648
Merr. 1943 – In: Brittonia: 29
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 630
PRAIN 1907 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 711