Thesium lineatum
| Family: | Santalaceae |
| Full name: | Thesium lineatum L.f. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Witstorm, Witstormbos, Kaiingbos |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Thesium ephedroides A.W.Hill Thesium rigidum Sond. Thesium sparteum R.Br. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A woody bush about 1.5–3 ft. high; branches dense, spreading, prominently grooved, glabrous; leaves mostly few and inconspicuous or sometimes fairly numerous and conspicuous, linear, flattened and fleshy, but mostly linear or occasionally linear-oblanceolate, subterete, subacute, 1–1.5 lin. long, fleshy, glabrous; bracts small and scale-like, triangular-ovate or sublanceolate, glabrous; pedicel up to about 1 lin. long, with 2 very small bracteoles at the apex; flowers solitary, white; perianth 1.25 lin. long; segments about 0.75 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, hooded, with slightly inflexed margins; anthers exserted, scarcely 0.2 lin. long; filaments 0.25 lin. long; style 0.75 lin. long; fruits white when mature, oblong-ellipsoid, about 4 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam., with a slightly impressed reticulation, not ribbed. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) A small much-branched rigid shrub with rigid spine-tipped branchlets; branchlets divaricate, subterete, scarcely grooved, glabrous and sometimes slightly glaucous; bark splitting transversely and peeling off; leaves small and scale-like, ovate or ovate-triangular, acute, about 0.5 lin. long or less, brownish, with scarious hyaline margins, glabrous; bracts and bracteoles similar to the leaves but smaller; flowers solitary or subsolitary, very shortly pedunculate; perianth 0.75 lin. long, with a distinct disc within the base; segments triangular, subacute, 0.5 lin. long, slightly hooded, glabrous; anthers exserted, 0.166 lin. long; style about 0.25 lin. long, reaching to the top of the anthers; fruits ovoid, 10-ribbed, slightly rugose. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis (T.rigidum)) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 03 Mar 2009 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/250 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
