Thymus mastichina(L.) L.

Mastic ThymeSpanish Marjoram

WFO wfo-0000324364 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Thymus mastichina, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199704951
Thymus mastichina, photographed by scolym
fig. b scolym, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191930726
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177938420
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. d Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168252210
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Christoph Moning
fig. e Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131469363
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Caroli
fig. f Caroli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131040872
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. g Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160812933
Thymus mastichina, photographed by Ivo Rosa
fig. h Ivo Rosa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38686168

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Thymus mastichina is native: Portugal, Spain PortugalSpain
Native distribution of Thymus mastichina, 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
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 15 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.

  • Majorana tomentosa (Willd.) Stokes
  • Origanum mastichina (L.) Kuntze
  • Origanum tomentosum (Willd.) Kuntze
  • Satureja mastichina L.
  • Thymus albicans subsp. donyanae (R.Morales) Rivas Mart.
  • Thymus almoradux Dufour ex Boiss.
  • Thymus carpetanus Sennen
  • Thymus ciliatus Moench
  • Thymus ciliolatus Pau
  • Thymus elongatus Schrad. ex Link
  • Thymus mastichina subsp. tomentosus (Willd.) Malag.
  • Thymus mastichina var. bracteosus Willk.
  • Thymus suavis Salisb.
  • Thymus tomentosus Boiss. & Reut. ex Willk. & Lange
  • Thymus tomentosus Willd.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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