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The genus Origanum is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Origanum

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Origanum acutidens (Hand.-Mazz.) Ietsw.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × adanense Baser & H.Duman	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × adonidis Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum akhdarense Ietsw. & Boulos	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum amanum Post	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × barbarae Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum bargyli Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum bastetanum Socorro, Arrebola & Espinar	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum bilgeri P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum boissieri Ietsw.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum brevidens (Bornm.) Dinsm.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum calcaratum Juss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum compactum Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum cordifolium (Montbret & Aucher ex Benth.) Vogel	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum cyrenaicum Bég. & Vacc.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum dayi Post	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum dictamnus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × dolichosiphon P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum ehrenbergii Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum elongatum (Bonnet) Emb. & Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum floribundum Munby	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × haradjanii Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum haussknechtii Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum humile Poir.	Accepted		TRO
Origanum husnucan-baseri H.Duman, Aytac & A.Duran	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum hypericifolium O.Schwarz & P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × intercedens Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × intermedium P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum isthmicum Danin	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum jordanicum Danin & Kunne	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum laevigatum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum leptocladum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum libanoticum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × lirium Heldr. ex Halácsy	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum majorana L.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × majoricum Cambess.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum microphyllum (Benth.) Vogel	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × minoanum P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum minutiflorum O.Schwarz & P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum munzurense Kit Tan & Sorger	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × nebrodense Tineo ex Lojac.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum onites L.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum × pabotii Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum pampaninii (Brullo & Furnari) Ietsw.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum petraeum Danin	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum punonense Danin	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum ramonense Danin	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum rotundifolium Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum saccatum P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum scabrum Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum sipyleum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum solymicum P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum symes Carlström	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum syriacum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum vetteri Briq. & Barbey	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum vogelii Greuter & Burdet	Accepted		WCSP
Origanum vulgare L.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 215 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Origanum. Of these 57 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 53 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Origanum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 215 species names for the genus Origanum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	57	26.5%
◕	Synonym	153	71.2%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 268 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Origanum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	24.6%
◕	Synonym	197	73.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 15 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 215 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Origanum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	56	147	0	0	203	94.4%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	0.9%
	Low confidence	0	5	5	0	10	4.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Origanum, are as follows: