Thesium fastigiatum A.W. Hill

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Synonyms:	Thesium luembense Robyns & Lawalrée Thesium tamariscinum A.W. Hill
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with branches up to 40 cm long growing from a strong woody caudex. Branches minutely scrabidulous or hairless, very shallowly ribeed by decurrent scale leaves. Leaves normally all reduced to scales, those subtending primary branches up to 7 mm long, linear to lanceolate. Flowers nearly always on a scaly primary shoot from a leaf axil, white, cream or very pale yellowish to greenish; tube 0.5-1 mm long with obscure ellipsoid external glands; lobes oblong-lanceolate, 0.8-1.7 mm long with margins inflexed. Fruit ovoid, 2.5-3 mm long. pale buff, strongly ribbed and reticulate.
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Derivation of specific name:	fastigiatum: with branches more or less parallel to the main stem; fastigiate.
Habitat:	On sandy or rocky soils in woodland, grassland or scrub.
Altitude range:	650 - 1900 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z
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Content last updated:	Thursday 13 June 2019
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 259. (Includes a picture). Hilliard, O.M. (2006). Santalaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 225 - 227. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 76. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 95.

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