Micromeria microphylla(d'Urv.) Benth.

WFO wfo-0000243358 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Micromeria microphylla, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. a Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-23 / obs. 173329934
Micromeria microphylla, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. b Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173329915
Micromeria microphylla, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. c Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173329928
Micromeria microphylla, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. d Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173329943

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Micromeria microphylla is native: Libya, Cyprus, Baleares, Italy, Sicilia, Spain LibyaCyprusItalySiciliaSpain Baleares
Native distribution of Micromeria microphylla, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Italy ITA
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Libya LBY AFRICA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 20 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.

  • Clinopodium microphyllum (d'Urv.) Kuntze
  • Micromeria biflora var. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) Knoche
  • Micromeria cypria Kotschy
  • Micromeria cypria var. villosissima H.Lindb.
  • Micromeria filiformis subsp. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) Bonafè
  • Micromeria graeca var. pauciflora Vis.
  • Micromeria knochei Sennen & Bianor
  • Micromeria microphylla subsp. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) Romo
  • Micromeria microphylla var. glabriuscula Benth.
  • Micromeria microphylla var. villosa Benth.
  • Micromeria nervosa subsp. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) Nyman
  • Micromeria rodriguezii Freyn & Janka
  • Satureja cordata subsp. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Satureja cypria (Kotschy) Prain
  • Satureja graeca var. pauciflora (Vis.) Briq.
  • Satureja microphylla Guss.
  • Satureja microphylla subsp. rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Satureja rodriguezii (Freyn & Janka) Rivas Mart., M.J.Costa & Loidi
  • Satureja teneriffae Willd. ex Link
  • Thymus microphyllus d'Urv.

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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