Thymus serpylloides
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Thymus serpylloides is a plant type from the genus of thyme ( Thymus ) in the family of Labiatae .
description
Thymus serpylloides is a small shrub with slender, arched to prostrate, woody stems , in the axils of which there are tufts of deciduous leaves and flower-bearing stems 1 to 8 cm high in rows. The flower-bearing stems only have a tuft of small leaves at the base, they are missing in the axils. The leaves are 5 to 8 mm long and 0.5 to 1 mm wide. They are linear-lanceolate, dense glandular dotted, downy-haired or hairless. The leaf margin is rolled back or almost rolled back and ciliate at the base.
The inflorescences are almost head-shaped and consist of loosely standing pseudo whorls consisting of two to six flowers . The bracts are 1.5 to 2 mm wide, green, similar to the leaves, but almost flat. The calyx is 3.5 to 4.5 mm long and hairy, the upper teeth are as long as wide and 0.5 to 0.7 mm wide. The crown is 5 to 6 mm long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 58.
Occurrence and locations
The species is common in the mountains of southern Spain . It usually grows there at altitudes above 2000 m.
Systematics
One can distinguish between two subspecies:
- Thymus serpylloides subsp. gadorensis (Pau) Jalas : It occurs in southern and southeastern Spain.
- Thymus serpylloides subsp. serpylloides : It occurs in the Sierra Nevada of Spain.
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
- ↑ Thymus serpylloides at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Thymus serpylloides. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 18, 2019.