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<taxonomicName id="4E10AC0096973D75A33EFCD00B3E97BE" LSID="57CF72AF-A114-59B5-A96D-87214F415E17" authority="Zhigila" authorityName="Zhigila" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Thesium muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae" status="sp. nov.">Thesium muasyae Zhigila</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation id="B69BD0F29351992F33EE2D302B715BA0" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Thesium muasyae sp. nov. A twig showing inflorescence arrangements B branchlet showing vegetative arrangements C bract D flower lateral view E flower dissected longitudinally F fruit. Line drawing by Pia M. Eibes." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.201.80774.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/702531" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figs 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation id="9D1A3E97745215F8893DDC6CBE26C196" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Morphological features of Thesium muasyae A whole plant in habitat B type material D. A. Zhigila &amp; A. M. Muasya 1308 C branchlet and leaves D fruiting branchlet E fruit lateral view F inflorescences and leaves G flower longitudinal section showing long style in relation to anthers and twisted placental column H flower subtended by bracts I elaiosome on fruit. Photographs by Daniel A. Zhigila. Scale bars: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.201.80774.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/702532" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 2</figureCitation>
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.
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<materialsCitation id="E3CA2B80FB87DADC227D38F5EC989F50" collectingDate="2021-10-21" collectorName="D. A. Zhigila, A. M. Muasya" country="South Africa" county="Bredasdorp District" elevation="60" latitude="-34.41478" location="Overberg" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="20.25292" municipality="Vanderstelskraal Farm" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Western Cape Province" typeStatus="holotype">
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.
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,
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, on limestone ridges, south east of
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,
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,
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,
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[
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]; elev.
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;
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,
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<collectorName id="4CF7D8A873294369176DD5A0A352958C">D.A. Zhigila</collectorName>
&amp;
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1308
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(
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, BOL; isotypes: K, NBG, PRE)
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.
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<taxonomicName id="13BACE64BC694BC3D967AC274CAF43BD" authorityName="Zhigila" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Thesium muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="F0184FC2DE0EA9BDD6052BD68148F81E" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
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is morphologically similar to
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<emphasis id="9AFC7025A50506C5D6186385284401DC" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="FD8EA274DAD2B73B685DB6D721BE4EAD" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1080/00359193109518840" author="Compton, RH" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="269 - 326" refId="B2" refString="Compton, RH, 1931. The flora of the Whitehill District. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 19 (3): 269 - 326, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00359193109518840" title="The flora of the Whitehill District." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/00359193109518840" volume="19" year="1931">Compton (1931)</bibRefCitation>
. Both species have robust woody habits, well-developed terete to triangular and imbricate leaves, elongated styles, conspicuous external glands between the perianth lobes, persistent perianth segments longer than the fruits, and elaiosomes (Table
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). However,
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<emphasis id="A36C8E50421D15929529F571CF9A16A1" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="1A8C69669BC1AA19CC052465460CB76D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
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in its branching pattern being intricate to sympodial, stems and leaves glabrous, leaves recurved, flowers in lax elongated terminal spikes or racemes in leaf and bract axils, patelliform flowers with post-staminal trichomes attached to the anthers (versus branching pattern divaricate to virgate, stems and leaves minutely scabrous, leaves erect, flowers in terminal capitate head or clusters, urceolate flowers with post-staminal trichomes free from anthers in
<taxonomicName id="EEBF5CCE8C063D8FE9642BA656678CB8" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. karooicum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="karooicum">
<emphasis id="33F507F7F273E404F809F34F1F68C6C6" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Further the two do not overlap in distribution and ecology,
<taxonomicName id="847360864220D0012FF59F92BEFF7D4C" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="DFB81FB26EEB118CE20CAB3796F12D90" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
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is restricted to the Overberg limestone outcrops whereas
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<emphasis id="8629BB8D99F4D36AFD68EFB671432450" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
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is found on the Sandstone Mountains of the Succulent Karoo.
<taxonomicName id="C901EA6E143821F69BAF55ECFEB86693" authorityName="Zhigila" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Thesium muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="0714037C4F39F8DBE0D10FC711BB8D52" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
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is also similar to
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<emphasis id="DDFDC51BDD0A84A13436279A8CDE07C7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. sonderianum</emphasis>
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, but differs in the branching pattern being sympodial to intricate, plant surface glabrous, leaf apex apiculate, inflorescences solitary spikes on branchlets, perianth external glands present, stigma above the anthers, found on limestone slopes (versus dichotomously branched, plant surface minutely pubescent, leaf apex acutely mucronate, inflorescences terminal globose spikes, perianth external glands absent, stigma below the anthers, and restricted to the grasslands in
<taxonomicName id="BA23673ED4E24E04274FB9890086003C" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. sonderianum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sonderianum">
<emphasis id="EB573D69D1295B019392936737CA3BE7" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. sonderianum</emphasis>
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). Comparisons of important morphological characters of
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<emphasis id="62BCA373F29618CDE6CE333E3497E019" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName id="88F62AA408AB5D2BBB791822453FC972" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. hispidulum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hispidulum">
<emphasis id="5E2CF40BE852935DAE96FFDB7BC9F70D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. hispidulum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="96447E760D318198C6347076E2B6C6E3" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="BF76B221F09FCDF31A6D31969EEF094B" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. sonderianum</emphasis>
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are presented in Table
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.
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<emphasis id="1C816A432A77E49A325E5725DED3C288" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Table 1.</emphasis>
Main differentiating morphological features of
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from its most-similar congeners.
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<taxonomicName id="5139839E0225F532F17557F215E2A1EC" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="612A2743B6959FAC745A2DB81E1E4745" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
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<th id="512F9D53E1C4BF6877B7B290F1FD69B6" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="763FC65826F8B24C951872940FD6BCFF" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. karooicum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="karooicum">
<emphasis id="CD20A1074C2B7BE0404FD77F76213242" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th id="FEB72170EB24255A0C1A53B68EE8BBAF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="41633B58BC9ACD03374094A5BC7384EF" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. sondarianum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sondarianum">
<emphasis id="D61261570E3364A9574DEA60F40CB60F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. sondarianum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th id="9A15DBDCF5A353C2B95CB27B1E5B397B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName id="C48ABCDEBE553C3FC1FD4633B03CB03B" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. hispidulum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hispidulum">
<emphasis id="F28AEB5407BDB71F1A192542A46C1D3A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. hispidulum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
</tr>
<tr id="59470E0500DC9AA1E95C0246BBA9C1D5" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="BB1B1C45EBF27674A2B35D3733C068FF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Plant height</td>
<td id="B65BFFA942F43562396B69EF757EF87D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-30 cm</td>
<td id="8EA607E061EEE60B93528502ABFF6650" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-70 cm</td>
<td id="70DA0AA0254C498525215DDBC2A7C1D1" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">50-100 cm</td>
<td id="871BE542DECC31D5C7ADA3F50DAB378D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-50 cm</td>
</tr>
<tr id="929E460FBE40580C4AAD1F649ED31A73" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="0330EE8927B165C502ADCB3A8E8F680A" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Branching pattern</td>
<td id="C9B19C7D57A6E40FE912089D9CD257F5" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">sympodial to intricate</td>
<td id="D0030BCA459C3FFC263F49A6D05BA912" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">divaricate</td>
<td id="161F0F02EBFC1B58073FA34C265688E0" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">dichotomous</td>
<td id="F154916DFC10AE5371818DFDF77F2405" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">decumbent</td>
</tr>
<tr id="CFDE71088BCC1517E08ABCAE732D2924" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="305783877A6F028ADAB95A7473FAC953" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Plant surface</td>
<td id="31C2C581204377CB936E2EFFFCE70BE6" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Glabrous</td>
<td id="3E15A7385D0ECE1A222E227CE1249D61" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">minutely pubescent</td>
<td id="D693A6B03FF997404FAD59C273FB9BBA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">minutely pubescent</td>
<td id="7664EB1052F596AA7AC4ABCBA1644450" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">pubescent</td>
</tr>
<tr id="D527616A0AEF5BBD80BA81D47B57D235" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="9075EF76FD58D42BE57A4BB21ADE4DA9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf curvature</td>
<td id="689CACDF42C68346B1819238AF6B87F1" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">recurved or straight</td>
<td id="C9F4B815DDC6E9929CB759ACBA1400E8" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">recurved</td>
<td id="51A327EA141D0E192677F6B3BD9DFDE9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">recurved</td>
<td id="59B8CF4A680709422C69B0391F7CABF6" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">recurved or straight</td>
</tr>
<tr id="5DDA04E34636E7366B0B89269141C142" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="370E64978CB0360713FA54FB1D0BB47A" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf margin</td>
<td id="C2408CF2C5B91A204F61CAA7DAF64A71" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Terete</td>
<td id="82952F1C516DD1CA0F19A11868ADED15" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">scabrous</td>
<td id="35BA63EABFC126B41365E16D7781F8C8" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">scabrous</td>
<td id="1DAC1D124BFE6ADA625682D828BDEF84" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">scabrous</td>
</tr>
<tr id="F8AFB5A6C208442CBC36146F7B164B6B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="3D77194D14E4B8DFC897B197BF657CA2" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf apex</td>
<td id="36B3B5ED955BA440D0DCBDCFE61878A0" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Apiculate</td>
<td id="06776FB906C6FA70DE57ECEA79FA234B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">acuminate</td>
<td id="6F491BD2C7320770FB57ED0F484CC48B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">acutely mucronate</td>
<td id="7DB499EADF8D244E27C1A0130949AF2E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">acuminate</td>
</tr>
<tr id="D2BB81A4178433704B0631FBD784384B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="5C807C9F182E93410E9E82B5E7D72077" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Inflorescent type</td>
<td id="C002D2583FCD1CBA15594966BEB39A7B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">elongated lax or solitary spikes</td>
<td id="93C75F5B0827319A75170FCD13182D64" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">globose spikes</td>
<td id="D0C52D7AC849D43CB1DFA4A1AA83CA15" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">globose spike</td>
<td id="8BFA26EF29B9415ABA46EBECBC988EBA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">globose spikes</td>
</tr>
<tr id="206AEAA5E0638A378EA404BCD856DCBD" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="6E899C1913CD3BFB4D9F93BCD8179823" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">External glands</td>
<td id="BB3CA57C6F56373759E3A2862CBAA16F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">present</td>
<td id="05F5C71AFE9178DF2E31EBC0AB9CDD6D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">present</td>
<td id="62A47B24D203BC343E0D9C55165B688D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">absent</td>
<td id="016FA95BE7C98B62F2B48A60C67AE5A9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">absent</td>
</tr>
<tr id="1378E24CFAFC8AD76D26A293425D3257" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="A917DE0CABD1898F376DD53504462D36" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Style length</td>
<td id="FB5CC6ACE9C326E0786F1C066731A4C3" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">1-2.5 mm</td>
<td id="4FC0EACDA858AC7B8EE94A9780CBF7AC" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">0.5-1.5 mm</td>
<td id="CA3BD113AE3C11B4316F3AEAAADD69B9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">1-2.5 mm</td>
<td id="0F56495CBDCDFB4352889074A1E5B2AA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">0.3-0.4 mm</td>
</tr>
<tr id="8CCA04F56D52F10C1145BBC369B6D6B6" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="9CCE7340C479F1ADEFE021699C5AEA86" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Style</td>
<td id="7D2D1C761BD201CB635346F76290FECE" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">above anther</td>
<td id="40B2787FCA5E53718FEDB11B18A111EA" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">below anther</td>
<td id="76A34C09E47A27F2B042AE318D62901B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">below anther</td>
<td id="4137EA59AEB39D1E3520A0DDDCA29D4D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">below anther</td>
</tr>
<tr id="F95256826E3C2CC0264D7E7F215B1D82" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="4AF222FBF02BC3AFAD391D909F63334D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Anther</td>
<td id="EB191AB877B1FBF1FBF0A03B8F71B5EC" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">exserted</td>
<td id="A5173348C2E033B6F3F7BFCD6BB4F2FB" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">exserted</td>
<td id="828503A37CC8F12109DBFDB6765DE9D4" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">partly exserted</td>
<td id="3E58FF96C2F64136E39CC75236C110FB" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">inserted</td>
</tr>
<tr id="08D104065B9E8655194669A4D50EA045" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="DF475478D8F8791C504C4AB48FA44C91" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Post-staminal trichomes</td>
<td id="5FF706942D99F4A5A3923E5100955C36" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">attached to anthers</td>
<td id="0F5FFC8A24E0855FEB30F44F8CE5FD92" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">free from anthers</td>
<td id="79E0FBA0C9A6981100426E95227BD34A" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">attached to anthers</td>
<td id="7993204004DA94BF8A7E25845CEFBC33" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">attached to anthers</td>
</tr>
<tr id="2D9FED50A4B827713E4201934494F6F4" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="DD7678B88CB8772CB34E99301E79E3C7" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Fruit length</td>
<td id="17C4C34E0575118C258732332F3ED105" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">4-7 mm</td>
<td id="D9F91E950318DFD1823EDE74E5E67151" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">4-10 mm</td>
<td id="72BF9F07C01790581E04AB669F1ED492" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">5-10 mm</td>
<td id="1EB8FDD839447DC34FF344B01493FF0B" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">3-4 mm</td>
</tr>
<tr id="145DF964EF864358F8F09A2E9748844B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="D0DF37BFD2BEDC4FAE6611D5671BDDC3" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Fruit ribs</td>
<td id="FD55EB0E609F621FD95E8E67D4DC8F2E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">5-ribbed</td>
<td id="30A4FBABD1893BF69C0E1BEB5F988D28" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-ribbed</td>
<td id="27E84834A4B3D7FAB9316356A91FC49E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">5-ribbed</td>
<td id="CC4EA006FC1ED50009D41EE4F0C813EF" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-ribbed</td>
</tr>
<tr id="829B78D10039D9BD4759A8FCBEFE80E4" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="CDDB042FF21934C110E267B18F30F8E7" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Substrate</td>
<td id="43FB367FAAB6C6AE1C6D472C910C730D" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">limestone slopes</td>
<td id="302E84690499A6767545AD990D37DDE9" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">sandstone and shale</td>
<td id="047E98C414D6659F8298536594EDDD30" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">sandstone</td>
<td id="E8DA08CF2757D8CE525E32D8E728FDB0" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">sandstone and shale</td>
</tr>
<tr id="4B7818EA29BCCF224DD352716140B018" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td id="537DF84C8F6A31130E30857DE4320D96" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Biome</td>
<td id="7C1A7658C07F95E881795ECB52EF234F" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Limestone Fynbos</td>
<td id="6BAF1896D4C67CF7F076798F315D442E" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Succulent Karoo</td>
<td id="4F91A46FB2E8FE3DC032ECBE7701AA91" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Grassland</td>
<td id="A289A42DAB6EF408FA9D35775B6985CD" colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Sandstone Fynbos</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="49322AEB4E5755B3C3292556BDD469A0" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
<paragraph id="5CB91F618953B9C5DD7E69ADCCACF7EE" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D1BAA1CB13E3BBE2559B110EBCD4877D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
A perennial shrub, arising from woody rootstock, glabrous, to about 30 cm tall.
<emphasis id="662EB555CDF251592A010CA6B3DC7C7C" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Stems</emphasis>
woody, erect to suberect, much branched, 3.0-5.0 mm in diameter, deeply grooved longitudinally.
<emphasis id="E85D2610409CB3F71982340878D4D604" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Branches</emphasis>
10-20 in number, mainly from the base, scarcely grooved, angled from&gt; 45° to &lt;90°, branching pattern intricate to sympodial.
<emphasis id="B00D8E89FA79FADF8B18E428244675C5" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Leaves</emphasis>
terete to triangular, somewhat succulent, adpressed to the branchlets, lanceolate or oblanceolate or somewhat triangular, 1.5-3
<normalizedToken id="CC85D0BBECF467425255F0EBD69650C0" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.5-1.5 cm, basally decurrent, midrib inconspicuous, not keeled but recurved, margins not distinct or entire, apically apiculate.
<emphasis id="CFC593BB113BCE0112A4EEC15F6634AA" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inflorescences</emphasis>
a lax terminal spike or flowers solitary in leaf and bract axils. Bracts 2-4, leaf-like, slightly adnate to the base of peduncle, linear to lanceolate, 1.0-2.0
<normalizedToken id="8C6EDD6FDA91A7FDA02DA1A10A11E7A7" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.3-0.5 mm, margin entire, apex acute to acuminate, green; bracteoles bract-like, but smaller, adpressed to the pedicel, shorter than flower length.
<emphasis id="EBC4B9BD9787084836BE39F7F0877823" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Flowers</emphasis>
patelliform, on short peduncles, 5-merous, 2.0-5.5
<normalizedToken id="5BE7F193255542FBCAFA6526372F5EF4" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5-5.0 mm, perianth lobe segments lanceolate, external gland conspicuously elongated between perianth lobe segments, 2.0-2.5
<normalizedToken id="0523528DB107112560334CA131FB0F7A" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.0-1.2 mm, lobe apex uncinate, obtuse, incurved, perianth lobe apical trichomes present, lobe margins entire, lobe internal colour white, external colour greenish black; hypanthium clearly marked, to about 0.5 mm long, hypanthium length longer than perianth lobe tube and wider.
<emphasis id="BC95EFDEC811428C3A70089BD9AB83E5" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Stamens</emphasis>
equal flower merosity, 0.2-0.3 mm long, staminal filaments exserted slightly above stigmas, attached to the perianth lobe walls by a tuft of trichomes, downwardly-directed basal trichomes absent.
<emphasis id="952D9AC5706C361D0FCA1CB47E0CF98C" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Style</emphasis>
together with stigma 4-6 mm long; placental column twisted.
<emphasis id="F9A8A592F09027FE503FCD4B7391C725" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fruits</emphasis>
subglobose to oblong, ovary portion oval, 5.0-8.0
<normalizedToken id="4C4ADCEF901F34604E561D7945F97D63" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.5-5.5 mm, green to creamy green, glabrous with 10 conspicuous longitudinal ribs, reticulate veins prominent, pedicels enlarging into elaiosomes, persistent perianth segments equal to longer than the fruit.
</paragraph>
<caption id="EE76B6818D7992B72ED660F14B324B08" doi="10.3897/phytokeys.201.80774.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/702531" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 1" startId="F1">
<paragraph id="93936309640FCDBD57E7687BE53E0594" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="10CB47BACA035CF5E0867AC7AB9387E8" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 1.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="B9F0C63540B2B668B96FD4B47FE51C8B" authorityName="Zhigila" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Thesium muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="B8437EB60F7C05B7D91E857674B5222A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
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sp. nov.
<emphasis id="C176C04B849828314B67CEF81A0FEFEB" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
twig showing inflorescence arrangements
<emphasis id="EC26EFED4CC62F3A464652E8F4994BA5" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
branchlet showing vegetative arrangements
<emphasis id="1A206AE5E318DD0F04D0DCE4F070F455" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
bract
<emphasis id="2479841E4AF803281321BA4B571944FF" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
flower lateral view
<emphasis id="DA770E0922B08959F279608DCBAD2924" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
flower dissected longitudinally
<emphasis id="69353A7CFCABB230EBAF3E913F27FE14" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
fruit. Line drawing by Pia M. Eibes.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="80D77EDD89EF295D3035317999911845" doi="10.3897/phytokeys.201.80774.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/702532" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 2" startId="F2">
<paragraph id="546A73C6C08274A27CD6B04BE11ABE72" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="A60C82E872EC902893FBBCEDC3EDF845" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 2.</emphasis>
Morphological features of
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<emphasis id="BA7C268855828028DB2EDDEA35FC0734" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="C7EE13C67CF055E66859B3C40C9065A4" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
whole plant in habitat
<emphasis id="F4EED1129C59C5285F869C3069C39629" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
type material
<emphasis id="D372A6CA6123C8A852CFAA2C2404C812" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D.A. Zhigila &amp; A.M. Muasya 1308</emphasis>
<emphasis id="833C3A4E6EC42D5A2DD5E734F68D6E9B" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
branchlet and leaves
<emphasis id="914B3AA6F5EECA14DBBA225852D33F6C" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
fruiting branchlet
<emphasis id="991C8B11DC3E24F054FC984D0BFEC1B6" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
fruit lateral view
<emphasis id="26C02188EFC2AED2015C1B1700F59BF3" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
inflorescences and leaves
<emphasis id="DE91B8785AA754B1C42C5982B3EA95F4" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">G</emphasis>
flower longitudinal section showing long style in relation to anthers and twisted placental column
<emphasis id="0C61670D0A90D445BAA5DF17F18F9720" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H</emphasis>
flower subtended by bracts
<emphasis id="41826FD5E66278384D0C2547055F42FD" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">I</emphasis>
elaiosome on fruit. Photographs by Daniel A. Zhigila. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="960019A57C969E05B4DA96F27BA7386D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="76DD32EF4B4FAE1B832AB78B1D366242" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A83EF3FFE2CFFCF60411B77DA3D83A00" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName id="28A86F6C7C2631052376E55D3BED2E35" authorityName="Zhigila" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Thesium muasyae" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="muasyae">
<emphasis id="47C950CFE9FE623894BE9F8BA21C57FC" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was collected on the limestone ridges, south east of Vanderstelskraal Farm, Overberg, Bredasdorp District, Western Cape Province, South Africa (Fig.
<figureCitation id="51E93F982AF3F3B8165AA6828F3FF630" captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Map of A South Africa with the red outline indicating the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) B the GCFR showing the type locality (red solid circle) of Thesium muasyae and of the congener species, T. hispidulum (aqua solid stars), T. karooicum (blue solid triangles) and T. sonderianum (fuchsia solid squares)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.201.80774.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/702533" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">3</figureCitation>
, triangles) at elevations less than 80 m above sea level. This species occurs on limestone and shale-limestone ecotone scrubs. The limestone soil in the type locality is characterised mainly by calcium carbonate, tiny fossils and other fossilized debris from the coastal limestone of the Bokkerveld Group (
<bibRefCitation id="71A7BDB3DF6E90611BA77D21545EE0BD" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1533/9781782423928.1.37" author="Finch, HJS" journalOrPublisher="Phytochemical Bulletin of Botanical Society of America" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B6" refString="Finch, HJS, Samuel, AM, Lane, GPF, 2014. Soils and soil management. Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Lockhart &amp; Wiseman's Crop Husbandry Including Grassland (9th edn.), Woodhead Publishing, 37-62. https://doi.org/10.1533/9781782423928.1.37" title="Soils and soil management. Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Lockhart &amp; Wiseman's Crop Husbandry Including Grassland (9 th edn.), Woodhead Publishing, 37 - 62." url="https://doi.org/10.1533/9781782423928.1.37" year="2014">Finch et al. 2014</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A6927323136BE9E0AD93A3955E91D755" DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.10.011" author="Penn-Clarke, CR" journalOrPublisher="Journal of African Earth Sciences" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="157 - 178" refId="B22" refString="Penn-Clarke, CR, Rubidge, BS, Jinnah, ZA, 2018. Two hundred years of palaeontological discovery: Review of research on the Early to Middle Devonian Bokkeveld Group (Cape Supergroup) of South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 137: 157 - 178, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.10.011" title="Two hundred years of palaeontological discovery: Review of research on the Early to Middle Devonian Bokkeveld Group (Cape Supergroup) of South Africa." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.10.011" volume="137" year="2018">Penn-Clarke et al. 2018</bibRefCitation>
). Physically, the limestone soil is grey to whitish brown.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F3331475173D5F6752A03D528E51AF6D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<emphasis id="9F242811CB2AF8F9958AC37AE444B2D8" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Map of
<emphasis id="2D6A9705454D99CDFD80EA80AA9E93B0" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
South Africa with the red outline indicating the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR)
<emphasis id="81C490F55BF56CC83F94575372CE8F0C" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
the GCFR showing the type locality (red solid circle) of
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<emphasis id="2B223A77A8FFBEDC0831326FD80B20F8" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and of the congener species,
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<emphasis id="EB1CE110D685AD4E711621B6EEEC0073" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. hispidulum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(aqua solid stars),
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<emphasis id="5EA9B36223581A653E6785734AFB50BA" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. karooicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(blue solid triangles) and
<taxonomicName id="A9B0D3739C5F606CD1A79FF76BBE516D" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Santalaceae" genus="Thesium" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="T. sonderianum" order="Santalales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sonderianum">
<emphasis id="3A8CF5033F42F2B12A2361FB75613484" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. sonderianum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(fuchsia solid squares).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="E9B9E45EF1F1D8E43721380AD31C4B52" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="phenology">
<paragraph id="3CCA720A308CC4ADE3FA86BD2E913882" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="ABD440305B539FC45629082F5E8020B0" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
The collections were made in October with fruits and few flowers. Based on the average of 40 days from flowering to fruiting stage in
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<emphasis id="82407F501244AF2D227F8C4B3D8128D6" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species (pers. obs.), we can then extrapolate the flowering period to be between August and November.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="3E97B12A283C1225F205360CC5A7A0DE" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="B33FA6BD224742343FAB448FBA40A880" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="5488BCC4531B76F8A615310A008E6B49" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
The specific epithet '
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<emphasis id="3DE7B871DCD034B44A124148F2DA19E4" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thesium muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
' honors Professor A. Muthama Muasya for his immense contribution to the floristics and taxonomy of the Overberg and Cape plant species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="8AC5032CF50537619143391207CE6512" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="conservation status">
<paragraph id="D74903226841EA63CD4401B0B43CAE7D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CA200E9AE5E868ACD7F24C36FD83D631" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
We estimated a total of 10-20 individuals of
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<emphasis id="118CEF81FCC6738D87CB57E06DC33C1F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in a single population over an extent of 0.0 km2 and the area of occupancy of about 5.0 km2. Although this species is on a private farm, grazing from livestock is an immediate threat. In addition, the entire Overberg Renosterveld habitat is considered as Endangered due to intense agricultural activities and the areas being fire-prone (
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;
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). These threats together with the GeoCat geographical range estimations translate to the criterion B2, Critically Endangered category of the
<bibRefCitation id="558243A6505565C78C00B6F3BED2CA0F" author="Hill, AW" journalOrPublisher="5. L. Reeve and Co. Ltd., London" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf" refId="B12" refString="2017. . http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf" url="http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf" year="2017">IUCN (2017)</bibRefCitation>
for
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<emphasis id="C906469E0C5D5193CCEBF747660669BB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. muasyae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5752FF64583CABB627E2FB3542174DF6" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="0D4C12F83EBA1C070EB21A00756ED3C1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Additional specimens examined.</paragraph>
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.
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,
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[
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,
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,
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&amp;
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1312
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(BOL!);
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,
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&amp;
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8276
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(BOL)
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.
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