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Thymus serpyllum

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Name

Identification
Thymus linearis Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Arvo Jaakko Juhanni Jalas, Thymus himalayicus Ronniger [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Arvo Jaakko Juhanni Jalas, Thymus serpyllum L. [family LAMIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thymus imbricatus
  • Thymus reflexus
  • Thymus glabratus
  • Thymus balansae
  • Thymus degenianus
  • Thymus serpyllum
  • Thymus chaubardi
  • Thymus rigidus
  • Thymus schimperi
  • Thymus linearis
  • Thymus himalayicus
  • Thymus nervosus
  • Thymus embergeri
  • Thymus sipyleus
  • Thymus bovei
  • Thymus lemnifolius

Flora

Entry for THYMUS Serpyllum Linn. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
THYMUS Serpyllum Linn. [family LABIATAE], Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 200. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 188; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 649; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 364.
Information
A perennial, much-branched at the crown of the root, with slender trailing more or less pubescent stems. Leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, cuneate at the base, entire, conspicuously dotted with black glands. Whorls crowded into globose terminal heads. Calyx 1/12 in. long; tube campanulate; teeth of the upper lip short, of the lower long and narrow. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx.
Range
Also in Europe, Western Asia, Himalayas.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Mount Bizen, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1854!Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Ataba, Steudner, 1406! near Enjedcap, Schimper, 1178! and without precise locality, Schimper, 712!
Distribution (external)
Greenland

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