Thymbra

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Thymbra in Antalya

There are two Thymbra species in Turkey, T. spicata and T. capitata.
They are often confused, and also with some Thymus. This provides a contrasting comparison between them. You can click the blue links to see pictures, the one under 'Head' also covers characters listed beneath.

Identification

• Thymbra stems have short pubescent hairs, and form bushes (neat or not) with thick woody bases.
• If you have long projecting stem hairs or thin carpetting stems without a thick base, see Thymus.
• "Floral Leaves (bracteoles)" are the small leafy parts among the flower head.


spicatacapitata
Turkish DistributionS & W edgesW edge & far SW, occasionally S edge generally
Flower Headelongatesquat
Bracteoles (floral Leaves)long narrow, separatedsquat, overlapping (cultivated plants may be narrower than wild)
purpling in sungreen
≥ flower tube≤ flower tube
Flowerswell gapped, forming vertical linesuniform densish effusion of flowers
Stem Hairs2-faced for ssp spicata (4-faced for white-flowered ssp intricata)all round
Winter Leaves11–18 × 2–3 mm4–10 × 1–1.5 mm
Mature Leaveslinearlinear to somewhat long-triangular

• Thymbra flowers are usually purply, however if you have a spicata with white flowers then it could be var. intricata, as follows.

• For photos of the subspecies see 2018 PDF p22 = PDFp8.

• FOT seems to have the hair sizes reversed compared to 1987 and 2018 PDFs so I have reversed the FOT figures which then matches my own measurement for var. spicata.


spicata var. spicataspicata var. intricata
Flower Colourpurple usuallywhite
Flowering Shootsc. simplebranched with wide angles (divaricately)
Stem Hairson 2 faceson all 4 faces
Bracteole hairs (on floral Leaves)dense, unequal, shortersparse, longer
to 0.7 mm1-1.5 mm (toward tips)

Botanical Descriptions

See dedicated page.

Resources

• 2018 Delimitation and revision of the genus Thymbra (Lamiaceae) by Christian Bräuchler. This includes full key (p18 = PDF p4) and photographs.

• 1987 The Genus Thymbra (El Genero Thymbra) by Ramon Morales.

• 1982 Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands vol. 7 ("FOT") by P H David (under Thymbra spicata and Coridothymus capitatus).

• 1972 Flora Europaea ed 1 vol 3 by T G Tutin et al (under Thymbra spicata and Thymus capitatus (N1)).

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