Thymus baeticus

Thymus baeticus is a species of plants in the Lamiaceae family.

Description
Thymus baeticus has suffrutice stems that are 15 - 50 cm in height, usually erect and pubescent. It has leaves that are 4 - 7 mm long and 0.6 - 2 mm wide that are linear or linear-lanceolate, revolute, ciliate at base, and densely hairy with short retrorse hairs. Its inflorescences are dense and capituliform. It has elliptic, ciliate bracts that are 4 - 6 mm long and 1.3 - 2.5 mm wide. The calyx are 3 - 3.5 mm, densely hairy, with short tube and ciliate upper teeth. The corolla are cream or white.

It has a chromosome number of 2n = 58, 60.

It flowers from May to June.

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 - 1300 m in southern Spain, where it is distributed along the coast of Cádiz and Grazalema.

Taxonomy
Thymus baeticus was described by Boiss. ex Lacaita and published in Cavanillesia 3: 42 (1930).

Etymology
The geographical epithet baeticus alludes to its location in Baetica.