African Plant Database


Thesium ussanguense Engl.
Family : SANTALACEAE
Protologue : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 305 (1901) 
Information on the genus : Thesium
 
 
Status
Status for TA : accepted (present)
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Thesium passerinoides Robyns & Lawalrée (1961)
=Thesium scoparium Peter
 
Ecology and distribution
Trop. Afr.
Biology : Perennial herb with a short woody rootstock, thickened at crown, to 4 cm ?, often forked and stoloniferous; crown with many conspicuous densely scaly vegetative buds elongating into flowering stems 10-30 cm tall, simple to sparingly branched;[…]
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Ecology : Grassland with Parinari, after fires; wooded grassland with Loudetia simplex; also ruderal; often in rocky places.
  1000-2440 m alt. Related to T. katangense, T. robynsii, T. malaissei.
 
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see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative
see under The International Plant Name Index
see under Flora of Mozambique
see under Flora of Zimbabwe
 
Map
carte afrique num 90750
 
Record n°90750 modified 2007-01-23
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