Thymus willkommii, Ronniger

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

48. T. willkommii Ronniger , Feddes Repert. 28: 147 (1930).

Woody at base, with long, slender, woody, arcuate to procumbent or creeping branches. Flowering stems 2-5 cm, pubescent all round. Leaves 5-7 x 2-3 mm, ovate to ovate-elliptical, glabrous, not ciliate at base; lateral veins somewhat indistinct. Flowers not forming a distinct inflorescence. Verticillasters 2- to 6-flowered, the cymes sometimes pedunculate; pedicels 1-2 mm. Bracts similar to the leaves. Calyx 4-5 mm; tube subcylindrical, about as long as lips, sparsely hairy; lips of about equal length; upper teeth c. 1 mm, lanceolate, not ciliate. Corolla 6-7 mm. • N.E. Spain. Hs.