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Thesium corymbuligerum

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Name

Identification
Thesium corymbuligerum Sond. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Thesium triflorum
  • Thesium corymbuligerum
  • Thesium virgatum
  • Thesium scandens
  • Thesium polyanthum

Flora

Entry for THESIUM corymbuligerum Sond. [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 corymbuligerum Sond. [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1857, 362;—A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 660.
THESIUM polyanthum Schlechter [family SANTALACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1898, 27.
Information
a small shrub, up to 1 ft. high; stems several, erect or suberect, woody, glabrous; branches bearing small corymbs of several flowers; leaves small and inconspicuous, linear, acute, about 1 lin. long, fleshy, concave on the upper surface, glabrous; flowers small, in small terminal branched cymes, bracts a little shorter than the flowers, ovate or oblong, acute; bracteoles very small; perianth saucer-shaped, 1 lin. long; segments triangular, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, flat, glabrous or nearly so on the margin; disc conspicuous; anthers exserted, nearly 1/4 lin. long; style 1/4 lin. long; fruits turbinate at the base, scarcely 2 lin. long, rather fleshy and scarcely ribbed. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Beacon Hill, Wolley-Dod, 2821! roadside towards Chapmans Bay, Wolley-Dod, 1551! Caledon; stony heights of the Hartebeest River, Zeyher, 3812! Zwart Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher, 85! Riversdale Div.; near Garcias Pass, 1800 ft., Bolus, 11376!

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