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  • COMMON NAME: Imbricate Indian mint
  • ARABIC: زعتر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Micromeria imbricata (Forssk.) C. Chr.
  • SYNONYMS: Satureja imbricata (Forssk.) Briq.
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Perennial, stems slender, erect, up to 20 cm, often aromatic, covered with very fine hairs. Leaves opposite, widely spaced along stem at 1-3 cm intervals, lower leaves oval with pointed tip and tapering to base, hair-like stalk up to 0.2 cm, upper leaves linear. Flowers in 3-5-flowered clusters from leaf nodes, on hair-like stalks up to 0.2 cm, pals violet to white, 0.3 cm long, from 0.3 cm long toothed calyx. Upper lip short, one-lobed (or tow fused lobes) with protruding, darker violet stamens, lower lip larger, 3-lobed. Flowering from February to April.
Among rocks of wadis and mountains.
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