Clinopodium serpyllifolium
Clinopodium serpyllifolium
Ssp barbatum: Naneliçay; Ssp brachycalyx: Şarşarçayı;
Ssp giresunicum: Giresun fesleğeni; Ssp serpyllifolium: Taş nanesi
Syn: Micromeria fruticosa ssp serpyllifolia
Canescent suffrutescent perennial herb, 20-60 cm, smelling of peppermint when crushed. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched, like the leave: whitish or greyish adpressed-velutinous, with long internodes. Median leaves ovate, 13-35 x 7-15 mm, flat, entire or obscurely and remotely crenate-dentate ± glandular-perforate beneath; petiole 2-9 mm. Thyrse interrupted or dense cylindrical to ovate-oblong, 5-17 x 1.5-5 cm. Cymules much branched, many flowered, with very small bracteoles. Floral leaves 1.5 x verticillasters to much shorter. Calyx turbinate to obconical-cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 mm, densely adpressed-tomentellous, divided to 1/6-1/4 into triangular obtuse teeth throat conspicuously bearded or not. Corolla 4-7 mm, white, lower lip often mauve-spotted. Nutlets 1 x 0.4 mm, oblong, acute, subapiculate. Fl. 6-8.
1- Upper verticillasters richly branched into a compact ovate-oblong head 3-5 cm broad; calyx throat strongly bearded subsp. barbatum
1- Verticillasters ± distant, forming an elongate interrupted inflorescence 1.53 em broad; calyx throat bearded or ±naked
2- Calyx not visibly bearded at throat, obconical-cylindrical, c. 2.5 mm; stems erect subsp. serpyllifolium
2- Calyx throat conspicuously bearded at throat, 1.5-2.5 mm; stems erect or procumbent
3- Calyx 2-2.5 mm, obconical-cylindrical; stems procumbent ...............subsp. giresunicum
3- Calyx 1.5-2 mm, turbinate; stems usually erect ...........subsp. brachycalyx
