Species Thesium junceum
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Thesium:
Derivation uncertain. Gk. thes = a hired labourer. An ancient name for a species of Linaria, toad flax, used by Pliny the Elder. Georg Christian Wittstein traces this to the legendary hero Theseus, who slew the Minotaur and to whom Ariadne gave a wreath in which this plant was woven.
Etymology of junceum:
From the Latin junceus = ‘resembling a reed’
Scientific name:
Thesium junceum Bernh.
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Protologue:
Flora 28: 80 (1845)
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Year published:
1845
Sparsely leafy, hemiparasitic shrublet to 60 cm with slender whip-like stems. Leaves few, terete. Flowers in slender, lax to dense spikes, whitish. Oct.--Feb. Moist lower slopes, NW, LB, SE (Clanwilliam to Transkei).
Observations of Taxon
Thesium junceum
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
23/11/2012 - 1:02pm
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