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| Family : SANTALACEAE |
| Protologue : Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 182 (1910) |
| Information on the genus : Thesium |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Thesium quarrei Robyns & Lawalrée (1944) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Perennial herb with woody caudex c. 15-25 mm Ø, crowned with many short closely scaly shoots elongating into stems 15-45 cm tall, 1,5-5 mm Ø at base, erect (or decumbent or ascending); plant black when dry; […] |
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| Ecology : |
Mixed woodland on Kalahari sand, sandy grassland; dry savanna; copper deposits; 900-1400 m alt. – Parasitic on, i.a., Fimbristylis complanata, Alloteropis semialata var. ecklonii, Tristachya sp., Ocimum hockii . |
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Type from Angola (Gossweiler 2713), Luassinga R. (not Suassingua; fide Hilliard in Fl. Zambes. 9/3, 2006).Collected at few localities with long distances between them, indicating that the species has a wide distribution (fide Hilliard, l.c.). |
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Record n°90675 |
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