CHR 472580 – Thymus vulgaris L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 472580
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 March 1995
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Thymus vulgaris L.
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1991-01-19 (Verbatim: 19-JAN-1991)
Preferred name:
Thymus vulgaris L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Lamiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Canterbury, Loburn area, White Rock, above Karetu River
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.1568 172.451
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Loburn area, White Rock, above Karetu River
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 11/91
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
19-JAN-1991
Start date:
1991-01-19
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M34 653 830 (WGS84 -43.159066 172.450226)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84): 43°9.6´ S 172°27´ E (WGS84 -43.16 172.45)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84): 43°9.6´ S 172°27´ E (WGS84 -43.16 172.45)
Altitudes:
from 243m
Habitat:
Limestone bluff, open grassy top.
Notes:
Small shrub c.30cm high, dense and compact habit, strongly thyme-scented when touched. Young shoots pale yellowish. Leaves grey-green above, paler below. Calyx +/- purple, especially the teeth and veins. Corolla pale pinkish-mauve. Corolla cont.; - c.6mm long to apex of recurved, short, bilobed upper lip. Lower lip lobes 3, 2-2.5 mm long, the lowest slightly the longest and pointing downwards, all oblong. Anthers rosy-mauve; filaments very pale. Fairly common for a few metres back from edge of bluff. A few metres away from Sykes 12/91 [CHR 472581]
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