Thesium horridum Pilg.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Thesium

Characteristics

A low spreading bush; branches numerous, short, stiff, pungent-pointed, minutely puberulous; leaves more or less imbricate and adpressed to the stem, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about 2 lin. long, convex below, concave above, finely scabrid-puberulous on the margin and surface; inflorescences crowded, 3-4-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, keeled; flowers shortly pedicellate; perianth 3/4 lin. long; segments ovate-triangular, acute, fringed at the apex and on the margin; anthers inserted in the perianth-tube and partly exserted, 1/4 lin. long; style 1/4 lin. long; fruits globose, 3/4 lin. long, with distinct ribs and reticulation, supported on a pedicel about 1/2 lin. long.
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Low, spreading, hemiparasitic shrublet, up to 150 mm tall, with stiff, spine-tipped branches covered with leaves pressed to stem. Leaves ± imbricate with acute tips. Flowers in axillary cymules, tepals fringed with long papillae, whitish.
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Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
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Distribution

Thesium horridum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780890-1
WFO ID wfo-0001134378
COL ID 56FFL
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Synonyms

Thesium horridum