{"id":11167,"date":"2020-11-10T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/thymus-l-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:42:51","slug":"thymus-l-2","status":"publish","type":"genus","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/thymus-l-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thymus L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genus closely related to <em>Thymbra<\/em>, from which it is differentiated mainly for having flowers with campanulate or cylindrical calyx, not compressed, without lateral keels, with only 10-13 veins, and with ovoid or ellipsoid nutlets. The genus <em>Thymus <\/em>comprises the popular thymes, with about 350 species, with Palaearctic distribution. In North Africa there are about 20 species, of Mediterranean distribution, mostly in Morocco and Algeria (10-12 species in each country), 3 species in Tunisia, 1 in Libya (<em>T. algeriensis <\/em>Boiss. &amp; Reut.) and 1 in Egypt (<em>T. bovei <\/em>Benth.). They are chamaephyte plants that do not normally exceed 40 cm in height. One of tallest species is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/thymus-broussonetii-boiss\/\"><strong>T. broussonetii<\/strong><\/a>. Another species of considerable size is <strong>T. maroccanus <\/strong>Ball, also with not revolute leaves, with dense, capituliform inflorescence; leaves and bracts of the inflorescence hirsute, but well differentiated by its similar cauline and floral leaves, and smaller calyx (3-3.5 mm) and corolla. Endemic to Morocco, it presents 2 subspecies: <strong>T. maroccanus<\/strong> subsp. <strong>maroccanus<\/strong>, of elliptical-lanceolate leaves, from the Anti-Atlas, High Atlas and Atlantic coastal and subcoastal areas of northern and central Morocco; and <strong>T. maroccanus <\/strong>subsp. <strong>rhombicus <\/strong>Villar, with leaves from oval-lanceolate to rhomboid.<\/p>\n<p>The species more broadly distributed through North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) is <strong>T. algeriensis <\/strong>Boiss. &amp; Reut., a small chamaephyte of cauline leaves with revolute margin, similar in shape to the floral leaves; calyx 2.5-4.5 mm, glabrous, with hairs only on the veins of its lower part.<\/p>\n<p>There is a similar genus, <strong>Hyssopus <\/strong>L., which, as in thymes, has flowers with a corolla that has 2 distinct lips, 4 stamens very exserted from the corolla tube and zygomorphic calyx, with 2 very different lips, the upper lip with 3 teeth and the lower lip with 2. It is represented in North Africa by a single species, <strong>H. officinalis <\/strong>L., with narrow leaves, almost linear, and blue-violet flowers, with parallel stamens, arranged in spikes with all the flowers towards the same side. Species typical of the Mediterranean region, in North Africa there are 2 subspecies, subsp. <strong>aristatus<\/strong> (Godr.) Nyman, in Morocco, and subsp. <strong>austro-oranensis <\/strong>Maire, in Morocco and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat common species, of variable distribution. For the moment, none of them are considered threatened. Currently, they have not been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11167","genus","type-genus","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thymus L. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thymus L. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genus closely related to Thymbra, from which it is differentiated mainly for having flowers with campanulate or cylindrical calyx, not compressed, without lateral keels, with only 10-13 veins, and with ovoid or ellipsoid nutlets. 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