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Thesium squarrosum

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Identification
Thesium squarrosum L.f. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Thesium triflorum
  • Thesium squarrosum
  • Thesium scandens
  • Thesium paniculatum
  • Thesium corniculatum
  • Thesium hispidulum
  • Thesium tenue
  • Thesium acutissimum

Flora

Entry for THESIUM squarrosum Linn. f. [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 squarrosum Linn. f. [family SANTALACEAE], Suppl. 162;—Thunb. Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 211; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 659; Sond. in Flora, 1857, 361, 405.
THESIUM multiflorum A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], Esp. Nouv. Thes. 4.
THESIUM corniculatum Krauss ex A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], in DC. l.c., name only, not of E. Meyer.
THESIUM hispidulum Zeyh. ex A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], in DC. l.c., name only, not of Lam.
THESIUM paniculatum Thunb. [family SANTALACEAE], in Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 210, as to spec. in Herb. Stockh.?
Information
stem erect or suberect, branched from near the base or in the upper half only, subterete, glabrous; branches numerous, crowded, angular, purplish when dry; leaves linear, with subacute cartilaginous tips, up to about 4 lin. long, rather fleshy, glabrous, at length recurved; peduncles very short and adnate to the bract; bracts leaf-like, reaching to the top of the flowers; bracteoles as long as or slightly longer than the flowers; perianth 3/4 lin. long; segments ovate-lanceolate, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, glabrous; anthers exserted, 1/8 lin. long; disc conspicuous; style very stout and short; fruit ellipsoid-globose, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. in diam., capped by the persistent perianth, stipitate, prominently 10-ribbed, reticulate between the ribs. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Somerset, Bowker! Bosch Berg, 400 ft., MacOwan, 1997! 3700 ft., Bolus, 281! 281b!COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; on plains, Bowie! Knysna Div.; hills near Knysna, 150 ft., Schlechter, 5929! Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 59! Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 3804! Goda Hopsudden, Sparmann! Algoa Bay, Forbes! Van Staadens, near Port Elizabeth, Mrs. Paterson, 760! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 2500 ft., Galpin, 81! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1363!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, sheets α and β in Herb. Thunberg!

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