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Thesium corniculatum

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Name

Identification
Thesium apiculatum Sond. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Thesium corniculatum E.Mey. [family SANTALACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thesium squarrosum
  • Thesium corniculatum
  • Thesium hispidulum
  • Thesium acutissimum
  • Thesium apiculatum

Flora

Entry for THESIUM acutissimum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 135, (1925) Author: (By A. W. HILL.)
Names
THESIUM acutissimum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], Esp. Nouv. Thes. 4;—Sond. in Flora, 1857, 405; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 659.
THESIUM Krebsii A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], Esp. Nouv. Thes. 1, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 656; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 403.
THESIUM apiculatum Sond. [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1857, 357
THESIUM apiculatum Sond. var. corniculatum [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1857, 357.
THESIUM corniculatum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], in D.C. Prodr. xiv. 662, partly.
THESIUM strictum Thunb. ex Sond. [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1857, 357, name only.
Information
stems numerous and slender from a slender rootstock, finely sulcate, very minutely tuberculate; branches slender; leaves acicular, subterete or in the barren shoots flat and with a distinct midrib, acutely mucronate, up to 1/2 in. long, rather fleshy, glabrous, recurved; inflorescence 1–3-flowered; bract shortly adnate to the peduncle, flat on the upper surface, concave below, apex cartilaginous and acute; bracteoles longer than the flowers, similar to the bracts; perianth 3/4 lin. long; segments triangular, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, glabrous; anthers 1/8 lin. long; disc conspicuous; style 1/4 lin. long, reaching to the top of the anthers; fruits ellipsoid, capped by the persistent perianth, 1 3/4 lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, conspicuously reticulate between the ribs. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, MacOwan, 2218!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 3816! 3816a! 3816b! 22! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, 4337! Redhouse and Van Staadens, Mrs. Paterson, 729! Albany Div.; between Kaffir Drift and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3781! Grahamstown, Misses Daly & Sole, 90! and without precise locality, Bowker! King Williamstown Div.; King Williams Town, 1500 ft., Sim, 1475!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Tsomo, 2000 ft., Baur, 476! Var. β: Transkei; Gcua River, Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Krebs, 291!

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