Cushion thyme
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As cushion thyme , several species from the genus thyme ( Thymus in) family of Labiatae designated. Here is the thymus cherlerioides described.
description
The upholstery thyme is a lawn-forming dwarf shrub with long, creeping stems , from which upright flower-bearing stems with a height of 1 to 8 cm extend and in whose armpits there are tufts of deciduous leaves . These are 4 to 10 (rarely up to 15) mm long and 0.3 to 1 mm wide. They are linear to linear-lanceolate, sessile, hairless or finely hairy to velvety hairy and mostly herbaceous. The veins can only be made out indistinctly, the leaf margins are slightly bent, and at least in the lower half they are ciliated.
The bracts are up to 2.5 mm, and more or less similar to the leaves, but are sometimes purple in color. The calyx is 3.5 to 5 mm long, tubular-bell-shaped, the upper teeth are 1 to 2 mm long, lanceolate, mostly ciliate and purple. The crown is 5 to 7 mm long and colored pink. The corolla tube is cylindrical.
Occurrence
The species is found in western and southern Turkey.
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea. Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Thymus cherlerioides. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 18, 2019.