Thesium hillianum Compton

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Thesium

Characteristics

Fruticulus ubique glaber. Caules tenues breves flexuosi, minute striati. Folia patentia falcata lineare-lanceolata plana acuta, textura molles, glauca, long. 5 lin., lat. 2/3 lin. Flores singuli in foliorum superiorum axillas. Bracteolae ad folia similes sed long, dimidiae. Flos breviter pedicellatus pyriformis; calycis tubus coriaceus, 5 maculis orbiculatis turgidis segmentis alternantibus, segmenti long, 3/4 lin. ovato-oblongi, capillis densis marginalibus apicalibusque instructi. Capilli superficiales perianthii in 5 cirris non antheris adhaerentes. Antherae long. 1/2 lin. Stylus long. 2/3 lin., ad basem antherarum attingens.
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Woody, branched, glabrous, hemiparasitic shrub, ?height. Leaves spreading, linear-lanceolate, falcate. Flowers in lax racemes, tepals ovate-oblong, with a pencil of hairs behind each anther, anthers free from perianth at apex.
Sprawling, hemiparasitic shrublet to 20 cm. Leaves oblanceolate. Flowers in lax racemes, whitish.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Distribution

Thesium hillianum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780878-1
WFO ID wfo-0001134375
COL ID 56FF9
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Synonyms

Thesium hillianum