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THESIUM brachyanthum Baker [family SANTALACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 brachyanthum Baker [family SANTALACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 182.
Information
Stems about 1 ft. long, erect, glabrous, winged towards the base; branches numerous, slender, erect, deeply sulcate. Leaves reduced to ovate acute scales 1–1 1/2 lin. long, membranous and with stout keel. Flowers in long lax terminal spikes; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, membranous, keeled. Perianth about 3/4 lin. long; lobes 1/2 lin. long, elliptic-ovate, subacute, glabrous. Anthers 1/4 lin. long. Style nearly 1/2 lin. long. Fruit turbinate, 1 1/2 lin. long, with prominent ribs and transverse reticulations.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Fort Hill, Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte!
Notes
A distinct species with bare deeply sulcate stems and reduced membranous thickly keeled leaves and bracts; it differs from T. subaphyllum, Engl., to which it appears to be allied, more especially in the bracts and bracteoles and the elongated inflorescences.
THESIUM brachyanthum Baker [family SANTALACEAE]
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