| Thesium wittei De Wild. & Staner |
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| Family : SANTALACEAE |
| Protologue : Contrib. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. iv. 74 (1932) |
| Information on the genus : Thesium |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Thesium fastigiatum A.W. Hill (1910) |
| =Thesium luembense Robyns & Lawalrée (1944) |
| =Thesium tamariscinum A.W. Hill (1910) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Perennial herb drying black with an erect woody thick rootstock crowned with tufts of slender erect stems 20-40 cm tall, 2-3 mm diam. at base, glabrous, ribbed, fastigiately branched; branches to 30 cm long with short twiglets terminating in a flower[…] |
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| Ecology : |
Savanna on sandy soil; plain with short grass and occasional shrubs; humid area on sandy plateau. |
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Close to T. doloense, but type of ramification different, leaves shorter (in T. doloense 6-12 mm long, not 3-6 mm), flowers larger (in T. doloense, 1,5-2,4 mm long) but stamens shorter, and fruit ovoid and larger (in T. doloense globose, 1,5-2 mm ?) |
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
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| Map |
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| Record n°90756 |
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