| Thesium thamnus Robyns & Lawalrée |
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| Family : SANTALACEAE |
| Protologue : Bull. Jard. Bot. État 31: 522 (1961) |
| 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 unyikense var. puberulum R.E. Fr. |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Perennial herb with a woody, irregularly shaped rootstock, 1-3 cm ?, with many short scaly straw-coloured, ciliate buds eventually elongating into stems; plant drying grey-green or ±fuscous; stems numerous, grey-green, tufted, ascending-erect,[…] |
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| Ecology : |
Grassland on margins of dambos; chipya woodland; open woodland on laterite soil; grassland subject to burning; also on Great Dyke (Zimbabwe). |
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1250-1900 m alt. Distinguished from T. unyikense, T. fastigiatum by the conspicuous hairs. Related to T. cinereum (a more delicate plant with linear bracts), and to T. setulosum (a stoloniferous plant lacking a thick woody rootstock). […] |
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
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| Record n°90745 modified 2007-01-23 |
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