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Thesium lopollense
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Type of Thesium lopollense Hiern [family SANTALACEAE]
Type of Thesium fastigiatum A.W.Hill [family SANTALACEAE]
Type of Thesium lopollense Hiern [family SANTALACEAE]
Type of Thesium lopollense Hiern [family SANTALACEAE]
Type of Thesium lopollense Hiern [family SANTALACEAE]
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Identification
Thesium lopollense
Hiern
[family
SANTALACEAE
] (stored under name);
Related name
Thesium fastigiatum
Thesium unyikense
Thesium lopollense
Flora
Entry for THESIUM lopollense Hiern. [family SANTALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 411, (
1913
) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
THESIUM lopollense
Hiern.
[family
SANTALACEAE
], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 937.
Information
A perennial herb; rootstock rather thick, woody; stems numerous, spreading, 2–8 in. long, much-branched. Leaves scale-like, subulate or lanceolate-subulate, acute or acuminate, concave, about 1 lin. long. Flowers terminating the branches of short axillary leafy shoots; bracteoles 4 or 5, broadly ovate, acuminate, ciliolate, 1 lin. long, forming a small involucre to the flower. Perianth cylindrical, 1 1/8 lin. long; lobes 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse with an incurved apiculus, margins slightly incurved, papillose. Anthers 1/4 lin. long; filaments 1/4 lin. long. Style 3/4 lin. long; stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid, 1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, 5 primary ribs prominent, the 5 intermediate ones and the transverse reticulations well developed.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; in pastures near Lopollo, among the bushes, &c., Welwitsch, 6437!
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