Species of a flowering plants
Thymus baeticus is a species of plants in the Lamiaceae family.
Description
Thymus baeticus has suffrutice stems that are 15–50 cm (5.9–19.7 in) in height, usually erect and pubescent.[citation needed] It has leaves that are 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long and 0.6–2 mm (0.024–0.079 in) wide that are linear or linear-lanceolate, revolute, ciliate at base, and densely hairy with short retrorse hairs.[citation needed] Its inflorescences are dense and capituliform.[citation needed] It has elliptic, ciliate bracts that are 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and 1.3–2.5 mm (0.051–0.098 in) wide.[citation needed] The calyx are 3–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in), densely hairy, with short tube and ciliate upper teeth.[citation needed] The corolla are cream or white.[citation needed]
It has a chromosome number of 2n = 58, 60.[citation needed]
It flowers from May to June.[2]
Distribution and habitat
It is found in thickets, on limestone, crystalline dolomites, dolomitic sands, stony soils and gypsum, sometimes also on sandstone, slate or shale; at an altitude of 30–1,300 m (98–4,265 ft) in southern Spain, where it is distributed along the coast of Cádiz and Grazalema.[2]
Taxonomy
Thymus baeticus was described by Boiss. ex Lacaita and published in Cavanillesia 3: 42 (1930).[3]
Etymology
The geographical epithet baeticus alludes to its location in Baetica.[citation needed]
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