Thymus mastichina, L.

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 : 174-175

2. T. mastichina L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 827 (1763).

Stems 20- 50 cm, erect, with axillary leaf-clusters. Leaves 8-10 x 2-3 mm,

narrowly ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, often more or less crenulate, tomentose to subglabrous, not cibate at base. Inflorescence 10-20 mm in diameter, usually subglobose. Bracts similar to the leaves, greenish. Calyx 4-6 mm; upper teeth 2-3 mm; all teeth long-ciliate, giving the inflorescence a somewhat plumose appearance (resembling Trifolium arvense ). Corolla whitish; tube scarcely exceeding calyx. 2zz = 56. • Spain and Portugal. HsLu.