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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Wild thyme in English is the name of a plant defined with Plectranthus amboinicus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Majana amboinica (Lour.) Kuntze (among others).

2) Wild thyme is also identified with Thymus linearis.

3) Wild thyme is also identified with Thymus serpyllum It has the synonym Serpyllum vulgare Fourr. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Ruizia (1986)
· Flora (1842)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1985)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1894)
· Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden (2000)

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