Thymus algeriensisBoiss. & Reut.

WFO wfo-0000323649 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Thymus algeriensis, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. a Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-10 / obs. 120430602
Thymus algeriensis, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. b Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65425796
Thymus algeriensis, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. c Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65425826
Thymus algeriensis, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65425853

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1667126
Filed as
Thymus algeriensis Boiss. & Reut.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
J. Bornmüller 1933-04-13
Origin
LY
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Thymus algeriensis is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisia
Native distribution of Thymus algeriensis, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 11 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.

  • Thymus algeriensis var. cinerascens (Murb.) Maire
  • Thymus algeriensis var. masculensis Maire
  • Thymus algeriensis var. pomelii Maire
  • Thymus algeriensis var. villicaulis Maire
  • Thymus ciliatus subsp. algeriensis (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.
  • Thymus ciliatus var. zattarellus (Pomel) Batt.
  • Thymus hirtus subsp. algeriensis (Boiss. & Reut.) Murb.
  • Thymus hirtus var. battandieri Ronniger & Sennen
  • Thymus hirtus var. cinerascens Murb.
  • Thymus tunetanus Pomel
  • Thymus zattarellus Pomel

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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