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Thesium gnidiaceum

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Identification
Thesium gnidiaceum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Thesium imbricatum E. Mey., non Thunb. nom.illeg. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Meyer, E. ?,
Related name
  • Thesium imbricatum
  • Thesium gnidiaceum
  • Thesium dregei

Flora

Entry for THESIUM gnidiaceum 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 gnidiaceum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], Esp. Nouv. Thes. 7;—A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 662.
THESIUM imbricatum E. Meyer [family SANTALACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 132, not of Thunb.
THESIUM Dregei Sond. [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1857, 356, 406.
Information
stems and branches ascending, very densely leafy; leaves erect, subulate, with very acute rigid cartilaginous whitish apex, flat on the upper surface, slightly rounded below, 1–3 lin. long, usually slightly scabrous; flowers in rather dense terminal spikes; bracts shorter than the open flowers, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, with an acuminate subulate very acute apex, finely scabrid-puberulous on the margin, very slightly keeled; bracteoles similar to the bracts but narrower; perianth 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long, with distinct external glands; segments linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long, flat, with a dense apical beard; anthers almost wholly included in the perianth-tube, about 1/4 lin. long; style very short or almost absent; fruits ovoid-globose, 2 1/4 lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, very prominently or almost honeycombed-reticulate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Addo, 1000–2000 ft., Drège a! Ecklon, 8! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3541! Bolus, 1912! MacOwan, 45! Guthrie, 3319! Schönland, 57! Between Coldstream and Grahamstown, 2000 ft., Bolus, 3594! Krebs, 386! Fort Beaufort Div.; Cooper, 419! Queenstown Div.; Queenstown, Cooper, 3095! British Kaffraria; Keiskamma Hoek, Cooper, 236! Var. β: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg and Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3807!

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