Thymus dolopicus, Form.

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

13. T. dolopicus Form. , Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 15: 75 (1897).

Plant with creeping woody primary branches bearing axillary leaf-clusters and erect to ascending flowering stems up to 10 cm. Leaves 6-10x1-1-5 mm, narrowly lanceolate-spathulate, shortly petiolate, velutinous, the basal half cibate; margins subrevolute. Inflorescence capitate, ovoid to globose. Bracts 1-5-4 mm wide, similar to the leaves or oblong-ovate, greenish. Calyx 4-5-5-5mm; upper teeth c. 1-5 mm, lanceolate, cibate. Corolla pink-purple, the tube scarcely exceeding calyx. • Mountains o f N. & C. Greece. Gr. T. leucotrichus Halâscy , Consp. FI. Graec. 2: 561 (1902), a seldom-collected plant of the high mountains of C. & S. Greece, is like 13 but with leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, covered by long and short hairs, and purplish bracts. Its status is uncertain, as is also that of T. leucotrichus var. creticus (Bald.) Ronniger from Kriti. Similar, possibly conspecific, taxa occur in Anatolia.