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Thesium brachyanthum

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Name

Identification
Thesium brachyanthum Baker [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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Flora

Entry for THESIUM brachyanthum Baker [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 brachyanthum Baker [family SANTALACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 182.
Information
Stems about 1 ft. long, erect, glabrous, winged towards the base; branches numerous, slender, erect, deeply sulcate. Leaves reduced to ovate acute scales 1–1 1/2 lin. long, membranous and with stout keel. Flowers in long lax terminal spikes; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, membranous, keeled. Perianth about 3/4 lin. long; lobes 1/2 lin. long, elliptic-ovate, subacute, glabrous. Anthers 1/4 lin. long. Style nearly 1/2 lin. long. Fruit turbinate, 1 1/2 lin. long, with prominent ribs and transverse reticulations.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Fort Hill, Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte!
Notes
A distinct species with bare deeply sulcate stems and reduced membranous thickly keeled leaves and bracts; it differs from T. subaphyllum, Engl., to which it appears to be allied, more especially in the bracts and bracteoles and the elongated inflorescences.

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