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Restio capillaris

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Name

Identification
Restio capillaris Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Restio perplexus
  • Restio implexus
  • Restio capillaris

Flora

Entry for RESTIO capillaris Kunth [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
RESTIO capillaris Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 405;—Steud. Synops. ii. 253; Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 264.
Information
stems 18 in. high, capillary, terete, purple-spotted, branched; sheaths tightly convolute, 1/4 in. long, membranous, ferruginous, mucronato-aristate; awn appressed; apex hyaline; male spikelets numerous, in linear cymes, each about 1/8 in. long, oblong-ovate, 2–4-flowered, with an open bract-like spathe at the base; bracts oblong, mucronato-aristate, hyaline at the apex; flowers ovate-lanceolate; perianth-segments rigid, linear-oblong; lateral conduplicate, villous-keeled; inner smaller; anthers linear-oblong; female spikelets solitary, 1-flowered; bracts lanceolate, mucronate; perianth as in the male, but segments more acute; capsule obliquely ovate-oblong, 1-celled by abortion, crowned by the rudiments of the style. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Schlechter, 348, ♂! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 339, ♂ and ♀! Drakenstein Mountains, 1600–2000 ft., Bolus, 4095!

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