Thymus mandschuricus Ronniger

Plants suberect. Fertile branchlets base somewhat woody, to 30 cm, 1.5-2 mm in diam., with small branchlets, spreading, densely hirsute, hairs 0.5-1 mm, internodes 0.9-1.1 cm. Leaves broadly rhombic-elliptic to elliptic, 0.8-1.2 cm × 3-7 mm (including petioles), densely pilose, distinctly glandular, leaf axils with tufts of leaves 2.5-4 × 1-2.5 mm. Inflorescences spicate, to 5 cm. Pedicel 2-4 mm. Calyx ca. 5 mm in flower, to 6 mm in fruit, with robust veins and glands, tube 2.5 mm, upper teeth triangular, ca. 1 mm, ciliate. Corolla rose, pilose, ca. 8 mm; tube narrowly funnelform, ca. 5 mm, upper lip apex emarginate, lower lip ± elongated (specimens not seen).

* Heilongjiang.