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Origanum vulgare L. is a polymorphic species, growing wild throughout the Mediterranean, the Irano-Turanean and the Euro-Siberian region [1]. It is distinguished into six subspecies, four of which viz. subsp. vulgare, subsp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart, subsp. gracile (Koch) Ietswaart and subsp. viridulum (Martrin-Donos) Nyman are found in the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia [1]. However, due to overlap of the diagnostic characters, some confusion still exists at the subspecies level.
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Karousou, R., Dardioti, A., Kokkini, S. (1998). Origanum vulgare L. In the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia: Distribution and Morphological Variation. In: Tsekos, I., Moustakas, M. (eds) Progress in Botanical Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5274-7_16
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