Thesium macrostachyum A.Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Thesium

Characteristics

Branches elongated, erect, fairly stout, subterete, glabrous; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 3-4 lin. long, flat and fleshy, glabrous flowers solitary or 2-3 together in the axils of the bracts, very shortly pedunculate; bracts leaf-like, shortly adnate to the peduncle, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, up to 2 lin. long, rather rigid, glabrous; bracteoles very small; perianth 1 1/8 lin. long, urceolate, with conspicuous external glands and a ring of hairs at the throat; segments linear, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, with an apical beard of stiff straight hairs; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; stigma seasile; fruits not seen.
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A shrub. It grows 1 m tall and is partly parasitic on other plants. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped. They are 7-8 cm long. The flowers occur singly. They are white.
Erect, nearly leafless, hemiparasitic shrub to 1 m. Leaves lanceolate to linear, flat and fleshy. Flowers 1-3 in bract axils, in elongate racemes, whitish.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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It is a subtropical plant.
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Edible leaves
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Distribution

Thesium macrostachyum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780970-1
WFO ID wfo-0001134398
COL ID 56FJ5
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Synonyms

Linosyris macrostachya Thesium macrostachyum