Thesium capituliflorum Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Thesium

Characteristics

A low spreading heath-like shrub, about 6 in. high; branches numerous from the apex of a rather slender erect rhizome, somewhat angular, glabrous; leaves closely adpressed to the stem, with spreading tips, lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, 3/4-1 lin. long, convex below, with finely puberulous margins; flowers sessile in small dense clusters at the apex of the slender branches; bracts ovate-lanceolate, with blackish acuminate tips, shorter than the flowers, keeled, with more or less membranous fringed margins; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little shorter; perianth 3/4-1 lin. long; segments ovate-triangular, acute, 1/3-2/3 lin. long, flat, densely bearded; anthers 1/4 lin. long, exserted from the perianth-tube; style about 1/8 lin. long; fruits subglobose, 2 lin. long, including the beak-like closed persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, conspicuously reticulate between the ribs.
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Hemiparasitic shrublet to 20 cm, with slightly ribbed branchlets. Leaves scattered, of 2 kinds, the lower terete, spreading, the upper almost scale-like, adpressed, triangular-lanceolate. Flowers in small, terminal clusters, whitish.
Sprawling, much-branched, hemiparasitic shrublet to 15 cm. Leaves lanceolate, terete, acute and recurved above. Flowers in small, terminal clusters, whitish.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Thesium capituliflorum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780750-1
WFO ID wfo-0001134327
COL ID 56FB6
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Synonyms

Linosyris capituliflora Thesium capituliflorum Thesium cuspidatum