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Thesium imbricatum

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Identification
Thesium imbricatum Thunb. [family SANTALACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for THESIUM imbricatum Thunb. [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 imbricatum Thunb. [family SANTALACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 208;—Sonder in Flora, 1857, 355; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 672 (among excluded species).
THESIUM abietinum Schlechter [family SANTALACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1897, 282.
Information
a much-branched conifer-like shrub with stout stem and branches closely beset with the persistent bases of the leaves; branchlets densely leafy, slightly scabrous; leaves opposite, linear, triangular in section, flat above, sharply keeled below, with a light-coloured cartilaginous acute apex, thick and rigid, 1 1/2–4 lin. long, about 1/2 lin. long, with finely scabridulous margins; flowers in few-flowered terminal heads; bracts similar to the leaves; bracteoles narrower, shorter than the flowers; perianth about 2 lin. long; segments triangular, acute, 1–1 3/4 lin. long, bearded inside; anthers 1/3– 1/2 lin. long; inserted at top of perianth-tube; style 3/4 lin. long, reaching to the middle of the anthers; fruits oblong-ovoid, 3 lin. long, including the thick closed perianth, obtusely 10-ribbed, not or scarcely reticulate between the ribs. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg near Graaff Reinet, 4400 ft., Bolus, 637! Phillipstown Div.; near Riet Fontein, Waschbanks River, Burchell, 2724!COAST REGION Queenstown Div.; Kliplaat, Zeyher, 38! summit of the Andriesberg Range, 6600–6800 ft., Galpin, 2172!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Gat Berg, Intwanazana, 4000 ft., Baur, 518! Natal; Niginya, 5500 ft., Wylie in Herb. Wood, 10532!KALAHARI REGION Basutoland, Cooper, 699!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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