Thymbra spicata subsp. spicata

Bräuchler, Christian, 2018, Delimitation and revision of the genus Thymbra (Lamiaceae), Phytotaxa 369 (1), pp. 15-27 : 21

subsp. spicata ; Figures 2. d , 3. b & e

Type: “ Thymum majus longifolium, Staechadis foliaceo capite purpurascente, pilosum” (lectotype, designated by Morales & López in Jarvis et al. (1993: 94), t. 116, f. 5 in Plukenet (1691))

Note: According to Jarvis (2007: 887), the sheet 724.1 ( LINN!), designated as lectotype by Morales (1987: 371) “lacks a Species Plantarum number and is a post-1753 addition to the herbarium, and not original material for the name”. Since identity of the lectotype is unambiguous, I refrain from formally selecting 724.1 as epitype.

= Thymbra verticillata Linnaeus (1753: 569) .

Type: Thymbra verticillata , s.d. (lectotype, designated by Morales in Jarvis et al. (2001: 521), LINN 724.2!)

= Thymbra ambigua Clarke (1814: 239) .

Type: “Defile of the Thermopylae, at the hot springs, in the narrowest part of the pass, close to the Via Militaris” (whereabouts unknown, maybe at CGE or OXF)

Note: Although no original material for this name has been traced so far, both description and location leave no doubt about the synonymy.

Distribution: East Mediterranean, costal areas from Greece to Israel, extending to Iraq and Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Representative specimens of Thymbra species; scale bar = 10 mm;-a) T.capitata, branch of a wild plant (Kattari SK07/Pel046, TUM),-b) inflorescence of T. capitata (Kattari SK07/Pel046, TUM);-c) inflorescence of a cultivated plant of T. capitata (Bräuchler 2526, TUM), note the narrower bracts compared to the wild plant, that are however never as long and narrow as in T. spicata;-d) inflorescence of a cultivated plant of T. spicata subsp. spicata (Bräuchler 4548, TUM).

FIGURE 3. Representative specimens of Thymbra species; scale bar = 10 mm;-a) branch of an isotype of T. spicata subsp. intricata (E00208084);-b)branch ofT.spicata subsp.spicata (Bräuchleret al.4344;TUM);-c)holotypeof T. sintenisiisubsp.isaurica(E00208086);- d) branch of an isolectotype of T. sintenisii subsp. sintenisii (E00208087);-e) inflorescence of T. spicata subsp. spicata (Bräuchler et al. 4344; TUM);-f) inflorescence of the holotype of T. sintenisii subsp. isaurica (E00208086);-g) inflorescence of an isolectotype of T. sintenisii subsp. sintenisii (E00208087).