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Thymelaea villosa (L.) Endl.

Daphne villosa L.

Spa.: Torvisco albar, corra.

Subshrub up to 50(70) cm in height, gynodioecious. Erect stems (rarely decumbent); old stems sparsely pilose, ± defoliated, slender and often reddish-brown; young stems yellowish, with hairs 1-3 mm, ± erect-patent but not rigid. Leaves appressed-imbricated at the end of the young stems, more spaced apart and patent along the rest of their length; 6-11(13) × 1.4-2.5(4) mm, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, flat, with very short petiole, persistent, abundantly ciliate along the margin, sparsely ciliated on the both sides (hairs 1-3 mm). Inflorescences in glomeruli, with 1-5 flowers, ebracteate, at the end of short branches and main stems. Flowers unisexual and hermaphrodite, yellow (occasionally pink), ± tubular, female flowers 5-6.5 mm, hermaphrodite flowers 8-9 mm; hypanthium sparsely villous; sepals 2-3.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, from acute to ± obtuse. Anthers yellow. Style subapical. Fruit nuciform, included in the hypanthium, with membranous and pilose pericarp. Seeds 2.1-2.8 × 1.2-1.6 mm, pyriform, with a curved apex and sheathed in a brown aril (caruncula), and a prominent chalaza.