Clinopodium umbrosum(M.Bieb.) K.Koch

WFO wfo-0001069875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Clinopodium umbrosum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-10-25 / obs. 51436013
Clinopodium umbrosum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175115833
Clinopodium umbrosum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175115836
Clinopodium umbrosum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175115841
Clinopodium umbrosum, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175115915

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3680429
Filed as
Clinopodium umbrosum (M.Bieb.) C.Koch
Det. by
Suddee, S.
Collected
M. Norsaengsri, R. Unwin, Tin Tin Mu, Ling Shein Man & L. Shine 2014-03-04
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Clinopodium umbrosum is native: Afghanistan, Iran, North Caucasus, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanIranNorth CaucasusTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Clinopodium umbrosum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
North Caucasus NCS
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calamintha biebersteinii K.Koch ex Ledeb.
  • Calamintha clinopodium var. umbrosa Dunn
  • Calamintha nepalensis Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Calamintha umbrosa (M.Bieb.) Rchb.
  • Faucibarba umbrosa (M.Bieb.) Dulac
  • Melissa umbrosa M.Bieb.
  • Satureja umbrosa (M.Bieb.) Greuter & Burdet
  • Thymus umbrosus (M.Bieb.) Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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