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Restio aristatus

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Name

Identification
Restio aristatus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Restio distachyos
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Flora

Entry for HYPODISCUS aristatus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 59, (1900) Author: (By M. T. MASTERS.)
Names
HYPODISCUS aristatus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE], in Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 450;—Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 252, and in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 380.
Restio aristatus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE], Diss. 10, No. 3, fig. 4, male; in Usteri, Delect. i. 44, t. 2, fig. 4. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 83; Thunb. Herb.! male plant, Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 415; Nees in Linnæa, v. 636; Kunth, Enum. iii. 383 male plant, excl. syn.; Steud. Synops. ii. 249, male plant excl. syn.
Information
stems tufted, erect, cylindric, olive-coloured, white-spotted, sparingly branched or quite simple; leaf-sheaths 1 1/4 in. long, tightly convolute, except at the apex, subulato-mucronate; male spikelets subglobose or oblong, solitary or more commonly clustered at the end of the branches; bracts with long spreading awns; flowers compressed, arcuate; outer perianth-segments oblong or obovate-lanceolate; lateral conduplicate, villous; anthers apiculate; female spikes solitary or few, approximate at the ends of the branches, ovate-oblong, about 1 in. long, subtended by a sheath-like spathe; bracts ovate-anceolate, yellow-margined, with long terminal awns; flower solitary, terminal; perianth on a fleshy stalk; segments subequal, membranous, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, pointed; style short; stigmas 2, linear; fruit oblong, obtuse, smooth, bony, purplish, surrounded at the base by the persistent perianth; seed solitary, pendulous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Piquetberg Div.; Piquet Berg, 1500–3000 ft., Drège, 2513, ♂! Cape Div.; Camps Bay, Burchell, 339, ♀! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1680, ♂ and ♀! 1681, ♂! Worcester Div.; Drakenstein Mountains near Bains Kloof, 1600–2000 ft., Bolus, 4106, ♂! Dutoits Kloof, Drège, 20, ♂! 199, ♂! 1656, ♀! mountains above Worcester, Rehmann, 2555! Stellenbosch Div.! Hottentots Holland Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Zeyher, 4332, ♂! Caledon Div.; mountains near Grietjes Gat, between Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, 2000–4000 ft., Zeyher, ♂ and ♀! Houw Hoek Mountains, 1000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 4332, ♀! mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7594, ♂ and ♀! Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7963, ♂! Swellendam Div.; on a mountain peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7373, ♀! Riversdale Div.; on the Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7057, ♀! George Div.; on mountains near George, Drège, 3941, ♂ and ♀! lower part of the Post Berg, near George, Burchell, 6027, ♂ and ♀! Var. bicolor; Clanwilliam Div.; Oliphants River, Zeyher, ♂ and ♀! Pretoris Kloof, between Piquiniers Kloof and Oliphants River, Drège, 2509, ♂ and ♀! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 140, ♀!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, ♂! Drège, 21, ♂! Sieber, 113, ♂!

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