Thymus kirgisorum, Dubjanski

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 178

38. T. kirgisorum Dubjanski in O. & B. Fedtsch., Consp. FI. Turkestan. 5: 128 (1913)

(inch T. calcareus Klokov & Schost. , T. cretaceus Klokov & Schost. , T. graniticus Klokov & Schost. , T. kaljmijussicus Klokov & Schost. ).

Like 37 but leaves (5-)7- 13 x 0-8-l‘5(-2) mm, linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptical, shortly petiolate, densely glandular-punctate; bracts more or less similar to the leaves; calyx 3-4 mm, densely glandularpunctate. S. part of U.S.S.R. Rs (C, W, E).

T. dubjanskii Klokov & Schost. , Bull. Jard. Bot. URSS 30: 545 (1932), from S.E. Russia (Chvalynsk, S.W. of Kujbysev), is a small, compact, woody plant with leaves 8-11 x 2-3 mm, and calyx 4-4-5 mm. The small amount of material seen is evidently heterogeneous, and one specimen from the type-locality closely resembles and may be identical with T. rariflorus C. Koch , Linnaea 21: 666 (1848), from the Caucasus.