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Micromeria glomerata

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Micromeria glomerata, known locally as cliff thyme or thyme of Taganana, is a species of plant with woody chameleophyte flowers, belonging to the Lamiaceae family. It is a species endemic to the northeast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, whose description was first made in 1974, thanks to botanist Pedro Luis Pérez de Paz. It is a medicinal and aromatic plant with pink-purple flowers that grows at low altitude in the crevices of the slopes of the protected area of the Anaga Rural Park, located in the massif of the same name. The flexible, puberulose stem and with internodes can reach 10 to 40 centimeters in height. On the other hand, the leaves are small and flat, 8 mm long by 6 mm wide.11

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Family
Lamiaceae

Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Micromeria glomerata
Slug
micromeria-glomerata
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Micromeria
Species
glomerata
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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