Thesium utile
Santalaceae
As at April 2024, 5 herbarium specimens
South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Southern Africa only
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Thesium utile - Tall, up to 1 m high, rigid, copiously erectly branched, broomlike, somewhat greyish; main stem up to 5 mm diam. Leaves relatively few and small. Flowers singly in upper axils on very short stalks, c 2 mm long. Fruits oval, 5 mm long, almost ribless, tipped with dried perianth.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.
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