Thymus ocheus, Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.

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 : 180-181

52. T. ocheus Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss. , Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 2(4): 6 (1859)

( T. chaubardii (Boiss. & Heldr. ex Reichenb. fil.) Celak. ).

Plants usually with long, creeping and woody nonflowering branches bearing axillary leaf-clusters; flowering stems up to 10 cm, each with a basal cluster of small leaves, hairy all round or on 2 opposite sides. Leaves up to 13 x 3-4 mm, elliptical to lanceolate, coriaceous; lateral veins distinct; marginal veins absent. Inflorescence globose to somewhat cylindrical. Bracts similar to the leaves. Calyx 3-4 mm, usually greenish, the upper lip longer than the tube; upper teeth c. 1 mm, pungent, usually ciliate. Corolla c. 6 mm, pale pink. Mountains o f Greece and Macedonia.?Bu G r Ju.