Species Thesium patersoniae
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There aren’t any identifications of Thesium patersoniae.
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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 patersoniae:
Named after Lt William Paterson (1755-1810), a naturalist, traveller and administrator, who undertook several plant-collecting expeditions into the interior from the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa)
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Long etymology:
Sparsely leafy, hemiparasitic shrublet to 25 cm. Leaves spreading, linear-subterete, acute. Flowers many in crowded ovoid heads, whitish. ?. Sandstone slopes, SE (Port Elizabeth).
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There aren’t any identifications of Thesium patersoniae.
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