Thesium nigricans Rendle

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Thesium nigricans

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Reserve, Stapleford

Thesium nigricans

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Reserve, Stapleford

Thesium nigricans

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Reserve, Stapleford

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Synonyms: Thesium scabridulum A. W. Hill
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Status: Native
Description:
Much-branched, perennial herb. Stems erect, decumbent or scrambling, 0.3-1 m high, ribbed, leafy. Leaves ascending-recurved to spreading, linear, apiculate, 7-20 mm long, decurrent into the ribs of the stems and branches, smaller towards the top and merging into the bracts. Inflorescences with c 20 flowers; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles minute, falling early. Flowers white or yellowish-green, tubular, 4.5-6.5 mm long. Fruit 6-7 mm long. Flowers solitary in axils of bracts, 1-6 together forming small terminal racemes on the branchlets, the whole forming a profusely branched panicle. Bracts linear, 3-12.5 mm long, leaf-like, adnate to almost the entire pedicel. Bracteoles 2, similar to bracts but smaller. Pedicels 0.5-3 mm long or sometimes flowers sessile. Perianth pale-yellowish-green or whitish; lobes usually 5, hairless. Fruit 1.8-2.5 mm long, light yellowish-brown to red-brown with faintly raised ribs and reticulations.
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Habitat: In montane scrub and along margins of forest, sometimes in Brachystegia woodland
Altitude range: 1150 - 2500 m
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Worldwide distribution: Southern Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
Malawi distribution: S
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Content last updated: Sunday 3 July 2016
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 55.

Goodier, R. & Phipps, J.B. (1961). A revised checklist of the vascular plants of the Chimanimani Mountains Kirkia 1 Page 55.

Hilliard, O.M. (2006). Santalaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 213 - 215. (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.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 172.

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 99.

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Flora of Mozambique: Thesium nigricans
Flora of Zimbabwe: Thesium nigricans

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Thesium nigricans
African Plant Database: Thesium nigricans
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Thesium nigricans
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Wikipedia: Thesium nigricans


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Thesium nigricans.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121480, retrieved 29 March 2024

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