Entry for THESIUM viride A. W. Hill [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
THESIUM virideA. W. Hill [family SANTALACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 238.
Information
Perennial; rootstock woody; stems erect, branched or unbranched, 10–14 in. high, ciliate or glabrous below, glabrous or subglabrous above, grooved; branches long vegetative or short flowering. Leaves subulate, acute, about 1 lin. long, adpressed, ciliate or subglabrous on the back. Inflorescences irregular branched axillary cymes, usually borne on a long peduncle; bracts and bracteoles forming an involucre, ovate or subulate, apiculate or acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long. Perianth 1–1 1/8 lin. long, brownish-white (Ledermann); lobes 3/4 lin. long, narrowly ovate, hooded, slightly hairy at the margins, margins more or less fused together above. Anthers and filaments 1/6 lin. long. Style about 7/8 lin. long. Fruit globose-ovoid, about 1 lin. long, with 10 ribs of equal size and transverse reticulations.
