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Osyridicarpos linearifolius

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Name

Identification
Osyridicarpos linearifolius Engl. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Polhill, R.M., Thesium triflorum L.f. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Thesium triflorum
  • Osyridicarpos schimperianus
  • Osyridicarpos linearifolius

Flora

Entry for OSYRIDICARPOS linearifolius Engl. [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
OSYRIDICARPOS linearifolius Engl. [family SANTALACEAE], Jahrb. xxviii. 385.
Information
A shrub 6–7 ft. high; branches long, virgate, longitudinally sulcate. Leaves linear, 3/4–1 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad, slightly narrowed to the base, obtuse, with a cartilaginous apiculus. Flowers 3–7 in lax cymes; bracts lanceolate; pedicels shorter than the flowers. Perianth-lobe deltoid. Anthers sessile at the base of the lobes. Style as long as the turbinate ovary.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Central Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 919 Goetze, 310.

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