Family |
Santalaceae
Thesium bergeri
Zucc.
Thesium bergeri Zucc.
(Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 2: 324; 1837. — Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 379; 1983)
• Life-form & habit: Hemiparasitic herb with slender stems, erect or ascending. Root often thickened.
• Leaves: Narrow, linear, uninerved; basal leaves narrower than cauline ones.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Ramules of inflorescence bearing 2–3 flowers. Bracts shorter than or slightly exceeding fruit; bracteoles shorter. Perianth persistent, forming a crustaceous nutlet with distinctly reticulated nerves.
• Fruit: Nutlet 3–4 mm, with reticulate venation, surmounted by the folded perianth.
• Phenology: Flowers April–June.
• Habitat & elevation: Woodlands and mountain pastures.
• Lebanese distribution: Mi. Douma; Mm. Jabal Kneissé, Sannine, Neba‘ Succar, Hadeth, Faraya, Ehden, Blaouzé, Tannourine, Bcharré.
• Native range: Albania, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Kriti, Lebanon–Syria, NW Balkan Peninsula, Palestine, Turkey, and Turkey-in-Europe (POWO).