الوصف النباتي
- الأوراق
- Leaves: Sessile, rigid, spreading to erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1–3 cm long; densely dotted with glabrous glands; often ciliate at the base; sometimes fascicled.
- الأزهار
- Inflorescence & flowers: Dense terminal capitula, ovoid to subcylindrical, 1–3 cm or longer. Bracts ovate-oblong, 5–7-nerved, pubescent, as long as calyces. Calyx 6–7 mm, shortly pubescent and punctate; lips subequal, upper oblong and tridenticulate, lower divided into two setaceous teeth. Corolla white, tube shortly exserted beyond calyx.
- الثمار والبذور
- Fruit: Nutlets ovoid, brown.
الموائل والبيئة
وصف الموئل
Habitat & elevation: Rocky ground, montane and interior plateaus.
مواسم النبات
- الفنلوجية
- Phenology: Flowers June–October.
الانتشار الموثق
Leb. Syr. Irq.
Lebanese distribution: Mount Makmel above Baalbeck, Ouadi Fou’ara, Orontes sources, Baalbeck, Homs–Tripoli, Rachaya, Hasbaya, Kfar Zebed.
Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon (Jdeidet Yabous, Zebdani, Bloudane, Ma‘loula, etc.), Jabal ‘Abd el-‘Aziz, Palmyra, Hauran, Damascus region.
Native range: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq. (POWO)
لمحة نباتية
- بنية النبات
- Life-form & habit: Low subshrub, variably bushy, 30–50 cm tall; stems erect, partly woody, rigid, covered with short whitish pubescence.
الفصيلة والتصنيف
- الاسم العلمي المقبول
- Thymus syriacus
- الفصيلة
- شفوية