Thymus baeticus, Boiss. ex Lacaita

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 : 176

22. T. baeticus Boiss. ex Lacaita , Cavanillesia 3: 44 (1930)

( T. hirtus auct., non Willd.).

Like 21 but stems arcuate to erect, with somewhat longer and coarser indumentum; leaves (4-)5- 8(-10) x 0-5—1(—1-5) mm, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, puberulent, cibate at base; bracts up to 3 mm wide; inflorescence usually many-flowered, capitubform, sometimes branched; calyx puberulent to hirsute, the bps about as long as tube; upper teeth up to 1mm, usually lanceolate; corolla up to 6 mm, distinctly longer than calyx, creamy white. 2« = 60. Mountains o f S. & S.E. Spain. Hs.

Variable in development of indumentum, and in shape of bracts and inflorescence.