Thymbra

Thymbra
	Thymbra spicata
Systematics
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily :	Nepetoideae
Tribe :	Mentheae
Sub tribus :	Menthinae
Genre :	Thymbra
Scientific name
	Thymbra
	L.

Thymbra is a plant genus of the family of the mint (Lamiaceae). The four species arenative tothe Mediterranean , Anatolia and northern Iraq .

description

Thymbra species are aromatic, fragrant subshrubs . Their entire leaves are usually conduplicate (lengthways along the middle) folded. Young leaves stand as short shoots in axillary clusters.

The inflorescences are crowded, terminally standing, spike or head-shaped thyrses , which consist of compressed pseudo whorls . They contain bracts which are not similar to the leaves and which are ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate in shape. Occasionally they are colored. The flowers stand on elliptical to lanceolate bracts .

The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five sepals are fused into a cylindrical tube with two lips, the upper lip being three-lobed and the lower lip two-lobed. The calyx tube has two more or less distinct lateral longitudinal ribs and 12 to 23 veins. The lower calyx lobes are short and triangular, the upper lanceolate and curved upwards. The throat is bearded and hairy. The cream to purple colored crown has two lips, the upper lip consists of one and the lower lip of three corolla lobes. The corolla lobes of the lower lip are more or less rounded, straight and curved. The upper lip is provided with almost circular lobes. The side lobes are bent downwards.

The four stamens start in the middle of the corolla tube; they are only in some species beyond the crown. The stamens are bent. The counters of the dust bags are forked and grow together. The lobes of the scar are completely or nearly identical.

The Klausen fruit breaks down into four Klausen, which are more or less smooth and egg-shaped.

Head thyme ( Thymbra capitata )

Systematics and distribution

The genus Thymbra was first published in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum . The lectotype was Thymbra spicata L. in 1929 in Green: Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists. London , p. 164 set. The genus Thymbra belongs to the Untertribus Menthinae from the tribe Mentheae in the subfamily Nepetoideae within the family of the mint family (Lamiaceae). Synonyms for Thymbra L. are Abulfali Adans. and Coridothymus Rchb. f.

The four Thymbra species occur in the Mediterranean region , Anatolia and northern Iraq .

The genus Thymbra contains only four species:

Thymbra calostachya (Rech. F.) Rech. F. : This endemic occurs only in eastern Crete in the Lassiti prefecture.
Heady thyme ( Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav .; Syn .: Satureja capitata L .; Thymus capitatus (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link ; Coridothymus capitatus (L.) Rchb. F. ): It is widespread in the Mediterranean region.
Thymbra sintenisii Bornm. & Azn. : The distribution area extends from Turkey to northern Iraq . With two subspecies.
Thymbra spicata L .: The range extends from Greece to western Iran . With two subspecies.

From the genus Thymbra to the genus Thymus :

Thymbra neurophylla Rech.f. → Thymus neurophyllus (Rech.f.) R.Morales

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f R. M. Harley et al .: Labiatae . In: Joachim W. Kadereit (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 7: Flowering plants, Dicotyledons. Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae) . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-40593-3 (English).
↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 2, Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae 1753, p. 569, digitized
^ Thymbra at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
↑ ^a ^b Thymbra L. - Factsheet. (No longer available online.) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, archived from the original on January 23, 2012 ; Retrieved February 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b Ramón Morales Valverde: El género Thymbra L. (Labiatae). In: Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid. Volume 44, No. 2, 1987, pp. 349-380, PDF file.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Thymbra. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 29, 2014.

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[Kubitzki-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f R. M. Harley et al .: Labiatae . In: Joachim W. Kadereit (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 7: Flowering plants, Dicotyledons. Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae) . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-40593-3 (English).

[SpPl-2] Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 2, Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae 1753, p. 569, digitized

[tropicos-3] Thymbra at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

[FSThymbra-4] Thymbra L. - Factsheet. (No longer available online.) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, archived from the original on January 23, 2012 ; Retrieved February 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[Morales2-5] Ramón Morales Valverde: El género Thymbra L. (Labiatae). In: Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid. Volume 44, No. 2, 1987, pp. 349-380, PDF file.

[WCSP-6] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Thymbra. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 29, 2014.