Thymus herba-barona, Loisel.

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 : 180

46. T. herba-barona Loisel. , FI. Gall. 360 (1807).

Branches procumbent to ascending, woody; long, creeping, non-flowering branches absent. Flowering stems 5-10 cm, hairy all round. Leaves usually 6-9 x 2-A mm, elliptical to rhombic-ovate, petiolate, acute, herbaceous, with flat to subrevolute margins, glabrous or puberulent, ciliate at base; veins indistinct. Inflorescence subcapitate, lax, sometimes with the lower verticillasters remote. Bracts similar to the leaves. Calyx 3-5 mm; upper teeth up to 1 - 5 mm, somewhat longer than wide, scabrid, not ciliate. Corolla up to 9 mm, pale purple. 2« = 56. • Corse, Sardegna. Co Sa.

Variable in dimensions of leaf and calyx, and in indumentum.