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Thesium schimperianum

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Identification
Thesium schimperianum Hochst. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Polhill, R.M. (ex icon.), Osyridicarpos schimperianus (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Osyridicarpos kirkii
  • Thesium virens
  • Osyridicarpos schimperianus
  • Osyridicarpos natalensis
  • Osyridicarpos scandens
  • Osyris alba
  • Osyridicarpus schimperianus
  • Thesium schimperianum
  • Osyridicarpos mildbraedianus

Flora

Entry for OSYRIDICARPOS schimperianus A.DC. [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
OSYRIDICARPOS schimperianus A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 635. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 199; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 152; Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1443, partly.
Thesium schimperianum Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SANTALACEAE], Fl. Abyss. ii. 235.
Information
An undershrub; branchlets long, slender, green, glabrous, sarmentose, sulcate. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, rather thick, dull dark green and glabrous on both surfaces, the lower 1/2–1 in. long, 1/6 in. broad, the upper growing gradually smaller. Flowers in terminal racemes produced down into the axils of the upper leaves, 1–3 from a node on a short erecto-patent peduncle; bracteoles lanceolate, minute. Perianth green, 1/6 in. long; lobes oblong, whitish, 1/2– 1/3 the length of the tube.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land around Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1034! Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1605! Keren, Steudner, 1367!Abyssinia Nile Land Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 404! Hildebrandt, 672! Beccari, 212.British East Africa Nile Land Uganda; Eldama Ravine and Mau, 7000–7500 ft., Whyte! Lykipia, Von Höhnel.

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