Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Thymelaea passerina Daphne mezereum Edgeworthia gardneri	Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy

Herbs, annual, to 6 m. Stems erect, branched, not jointed, slender, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Leaves scattered along new growth, not clustered distally, often appressed to stem when young, sessile or subsessile; blade linear to linearlanceolate, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, solitary flowers or cymose clusters, sessile [shortly pedicellate]; bracts 2, [linear] lanceolate, often with tuft of white hairs. Flowers: hypanthium tubular or urceolate; calyx 4-lobed, lobes spreading; petals absent; disc minute or absent; stamens 8, included or distal whorl partially exserted, adnate to hypanthium; style slightly exserted; stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, green, becoming black, hard, enclosed by persistent hypanthium.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe, w Asia, n Africa

Discussion

Species 30 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Thymelaea passerina