Thesium humile

Thesium humile

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Santalales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Santalales

Familia: Santalaceae
Genus: Thesium
Species: Thesium humile

Name

Thesium humile Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 43 (1794).

• Type: [Tunisia] "in cultis Tuneti", Vahl (C).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Linosyris humilis (Vahl) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 588 (1891).
• Heterotypic
  • Thesium alpinum Desf., Fl. Atlant. 1: 206 (1798), nom. illeg. non Thesium alpinum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 207 (1753).
  • Thesium decumbens Dolliner, Enum. Pl. Austr. Infer. 113 (1842).
  • Thesium graecum Zucc., Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 2: 322 (1837).
    • Type: [Greece, Peloponnisos] "prope Napoli di Romania [Navplio]", Berger (M).
  • Thesium humile f. maritimum N.D.Simpson, Tech. Sci. Serv. Bull. 93: 36 (1930). (maritima)
    • Thesium humile var. maritimum (N.D.Simpson) Sa'ad, Fl Egypt, fam. 46. Santalac. (Taeckholmia, addit. ser., 2) 25 (1983 publ. 1984) (“maritima”).
  • Thesium humile var. mauritanicum Bonnet & Barratte, Cat. Pl. Tunisie: 378 (1896), nom. illeg. non Batt.,

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe Regional: Southwestern Europe Baleares (Ibiza with Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca), Corse, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain (Gibraltar, Spain (mainland)) Regional: Southeastern Europe Albania, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania (doubtful), Sicilia (Sicily, Malta), Yugoslavia (Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro) Continental: Africa Regional: Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia. Regional: Macaronesia Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Gomera, Lanzarote, La Palma, Tenerife; doubtfully native) Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria (Lebanon, Syria), Palestine (Israel, Jordan), Sinai, Turkey. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Vahl, M. 1794. Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum, tam earum, quas in itinere, imprimis orientali, collegit Petrus Forskål, quam aliarum, recentius detectarum, exactiores descriptiones, nec non observationes circa quasdam plantas dudum cognitas. Pars 3. 106 pp., tt. 51–75. Nicolaus Möller & fil., Hauniae [Copenhagen]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Snogerup, S.E. & Snogerup, B. 1997. Thesium. Pp. 61–66 in Strid, A. & Tan, K. (eds.), Flora Hellenica. Volume One (Gymnospermae to Caryophyllaceae). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 547 pp. ISBN 3-87429-391-2. Reference page. 

Links

• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Thesium humile in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Thesium humile in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Jul 26. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Thesium humile. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 26 Jul 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Thesium humile. Published online. Accessed: 26 Jul 2022.
• Hassler, M. 2022. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Thesium humile. Accessed: 26 Jul 2022.
• Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Thesium humile in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Jul 26.