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|accepted_name=Thymelaea
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 3. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Thymelaeaceae;Thymelaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Thymelaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thymelaea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 380, 381
|treatment_page=page 383
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual, to 6 m.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem size;stem pubescence;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>erect, branched, not jointed, slender, glabrous or sparsely pilose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf arrangement or growth form;leaf fixation or orientation;growth life cycle;stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Leaves </b>scattered along new growth, not clustered distally, often appressed to stem when young, sessile or subsessile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade arrangement or course or shape;surface pubescence">blade linear to linearlanceolate, surfaces glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence position;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower architecture;flower arrangement;flower architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary, solitary flowers or cymose clusters, sessile [shortly pedicellate];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract quantity;bract shape;hair coloration">bracts 2, [linear] lanceolate, often with tuft of white hairs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape"><b>Flowers:</b> hypanthium tubular or urceolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="calyx shape;lobe orientation">calyx 4-lobed, lobes spreading;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petal presence">petals absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="disc size;disc presence">disc minute or absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stamen quantity;whorl position;whorl fusion">stamens 8, included or distal whorl partially exserted, adnate to hypanthium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style position">style slightly exserted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigma capitate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit coloration;fruit coloration;fruit texture;hypanthium duration"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, green, becoming black, hard, enclosed by persistent hypanthium.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;w Asia;n Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 30 (1 in the flora).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Thymelaea
|author=Lorin I. Nevling Jr.;Kerry Barringer
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Thymelaeaceae
|distribution=Europe;w Asia;n Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Thymelaea
|blade arrangement or course or shape=linear
|bract quantity=2
|bract shape=lanceolate
|calyx shape=4-lobed
|disc presence=absent
|disc size=minute
|flower architecture=sessile;cymose
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower arrangement=cluster
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit coloration=black;green
|fruit texture=hard
|growth life cycle=new
|hair coloration=white
|hypanthium duration=persistent
|hypanthium shape=urceolate;tubular
|inflorescence position=axillary
|leaf arrangement=scattered
|leaf arrangement or growth form=clustered
|leaf fixation or orientation=appressed
|lobe orientation=spreading
|petal presence=absent
|stamen quantity=8
|stem architecture=subsessile;sessile;not jointed;branched
|stem orientation=erect
|stem pubescence=pilose;glabrous
|stem size=slender
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|style position=exserted
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism duration=annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism some measurement=0m;6m
|whorl fusion=adnate
|whorl position=exserted
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