Thesium ramosum Hayne

Taxonomy: Family: Santalaceae// Genus: Thesium// Species: Thesium ramosum Hayne

Determined according to the botanical key provided in the The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia (Micevski and Matevski, 2005) as Thesium arvense Horvátovszky (syn. Thesium ramosum Hayne). The accepted name in the Euro+Med PlantBase is Thesium ramosum Hayne.

Lifeform: Perrenial; hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: Native from Central Europe to West Siberia, China (Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia) and Iran according to the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Open habitats- grassland, bushland, rocky terrains.

Flowering period: Late spring – summer: MAY, JUN,JUL.

References:

Micevski, K and Matevski, V. (2005). The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia Vol. I, Book 6. Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Thesium ramosum Hayne. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781073-1 [Accessed 22.10.2021].

Thesium ramosum. Uotila, P. (2011): Santalaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the Internet http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameCache=Thesium%20ramosum&PTRefFk=7300000 [Accessed 22.10.2021].