Thymelaea

Miller

Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4, vol. 3. 1754.

Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 383. Mentioned on page 380, 381.
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FNA6 P44 Thymelaea passerina.jpegThymelaea 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.

... more about "Thymelaea"
Lorin I. Nevling Jr. +  and Kerry Barringer +
Miller +
lanceolate +
4-lobed +
minute +
Europe +, w Asia +  and n Africa +
achlorophyllous +
sessile +  and cymose +
black +  and green +
indehiscent +
urceolate +  and tubular +
1(-5)-carpellate +
Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. +
crassinucellate +, carunculate +, arillate +  and bitegmic +
hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
Introduced +
diplostemonous +
subsessile +, sessile +, not jointed +  and branched +
pilose +  and glabrous +
slender +
punctiform +, clavate +  and capitate +
Thymelaea +
Thymelaeaceae +
lignified +