Satureja L.

(In Mal.) Often slender and prostrate herbs. Leaves crenate-serrate or entire. Flowers small or medium-sized, in dense axillary verticillasters which are often forming loose spicate or racemose inflorescences. Calyx campanulate or tubular, straight (slightly gibbous at the base in the fruiting stage, in Mal.); 10-13-nerved, 2-lipped; upper lip 3-toothed; lower lip 2-toothed, teeth subulate; throat naked or villous. Corolla tube nearly straight, with a longitudinal hairy stripe inside or not; limb 2-lipped; upper lip broad, erect, entire or emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs, ascending under the upper lip; upper pair always smaller and often imperfect (in Mai.); anthers 2-celled, cells parallel or divaricate. Disk uniform, entire. Style lobes equal or the upper lobe smaller. Nutlets minute, subglobose, smooth.