Aromatic, narrow shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves more or less round, the margins irregular because variously recurved, about 2-5 mm long and wide, tip blunt. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils. Calyx tube about 2 mm long. Corolla 7-8 mm long, mauve to blue, the tip often whitish; spring.

Qld, NSW, Vic

Source: Lumley, P. (2002). Origanum. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.