Thymus doefleri Ronniger

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'Thymus doefleri' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/thymus/thymus-doefleri/). Accessed 2026-06-18.

Family

  • Lamiaceae

Genus

Synonyms

  • (Ronniger) Ronniger

Glossary

synonym
(syn.) (botanical) An alternative or former name for a taxon usually considered to be invalid (often given in brackets). Synonyms arise when a taxon has been described more than once (the prior name usually being the one accepted as correct) or if an article of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature has been contravened requiring the publishing of a new name. Developments in taxonomic thought may be reflected in an increasing list of synonyms as generic or specific concepts change over time.

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

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'Thymus doefleri' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/thymus/thymus-doefleri/). Accessed 2026-06-18.

Taxonomic note Bean gives the additional synonym Thymus hirsutus Bieb. var. doerfleri (Ronniger) Ronniger. Thymus hisrsutus Bieb. has been referred to Thymus pannonicus.

Of uncertain taxonomic status, this thyme belongs to the same group as T. drucei, and is mentioned in Flora Europaea under T. praecox (q.v. above). Stems hairy all round. Leaves 38 to 12 in. long, densely covered with long and short hairs. Flowers purplish pink. Apparently confined to the Koritnik massif on the border between Albania and Yugoslavia; discovered by J. D. Doerfler in 1916 and introduced by him to the Vienna Botanic Garden, thence to Kew. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 381.