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Thymus L.

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Thymus L., Sp. Pl. 590-592 (1753)
Thymus L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
590-592
ICN
Thymus L.
genus
Thymus

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Thymus

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Thymus L.

Aromatic, usually gynodioecious, perennial herbs or small shrubs, dotted with glands, often mat-forming with stems creeping or decumbent and 4-angled. Lvs entire; margins often revolute. Verticels 1-many-flowered, often densely packed in a terminal head, sometimes distinct. Bracts similar or dissimilar to lvs. Calyx tube cylindric to campanulate, straight, 10-13-nerved, hairy in throat; limb usually 2-lipped with upper lip of 3 teeth and lower of 2 small, ± subulate teeth. Corolla tube included or exserted, straight; limb 2-lipped, generally hairy outside; upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens straight, divergent, usually exserted in ☿ fls. Style gynobasic, its branches ± equal (at least in spp. in N.Z.). Nutlets smooth.

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Thymus L.
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Thymus L.
Nepal
Thymus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Thymus L.
United Kingdom

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30f0e8d4-725f-4f75-b8f8-283e9ef2184e
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1 January 2000
16 September 2008
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