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Restio cuspidatus

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Identification
Restio cuspidatus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE ] Ischyrolepis capensis (L.) H.P.Linder [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Restio lucaeanus
  • Restio
  • Restio squarrosus
  • Thamnochortus dichotomus
  • Ischyrolepis capensis
  • Restio cuspidatus
  • Restio luceanus
  • Restio distachyos
  • Restio sprengelii
  • Restio triflorus
  • Restio dichotomus
  • Restio tamnocortus
  • Platycaulos major

Flora

Entry for RESTIO cuspidatus Thunb. [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 cuspidatus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Hoffm. Phytog. Blätter, i. 8;—Thunb. in Weber and Mohr, Archiv. i. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 87; Thunb. Herb. partly, ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 418; Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 233.
Restio squarrosus Spreng. [family RESTIONACEAE], Syst. Veg. i. 186, not of Poiret; Nees in Linnæa, v. 643; Steudel in Flora, 1829, i. 133.
Restio lucæanus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 385, male fl.
Restio Sprengelii Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 224.
Information
stems tufted, erect, somewhat tubercled; fertile 1–2 ft. high, terete, simple or rarely branched; sterile shorter, repeatedly branched; ultimate branchlets filiform, curved, pointed at the apex; leaf-sheaths 3/4 in. long, loosely convolute, coriaceous above, dividing into two hyaline lobes with a central awn; leaf-sheaths on the sterile branchlets ending in a leafy, curved mucro; male spikelets 2–5, clustered at the ends of the branches, each about 1/2 in. long, cylindric-lanceolate or oblong-acute, straight or curved, with a short sheath-like spathe at the base; bracts oblong, acuminate, aristate; awn spreading; flowers shorter than the bracts, ovate-lanceolate; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate; female spikelets 2–3, approximate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, afterwards ovoid; bracts exceeding the ovate-lanceolate, pedicellate flowers; ovary oblong, flattened, 2-celled; style single dividing into two stigmatic branches; capsule 2-celled, dehiscing at the margins; seeds oblong-obtuse, trigonous; testa white, thickly spotted with purple. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Burchell, 39/1, ♂! 209, ♂! Bolus, 4453, ♂! Lion Mountain, Burchell, 120, ♂! Table Mountain, Milne, 223, ♂! Bolus, 2885, ♂! Ecklon, 848, ♂! MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr. 1565, ♂! Camps Bay, Burchell, 854! Devils Mountain, Bolus, 4463, ♀! Paarl Div.; between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drège, 48 partly! Ceres Div.; mountains near Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5482, ♂! Worcester Div., Zeyher, ♀! Caledon Div.; between Genadendal and Donker Hoek, Burchell, 7926 partly, ♀! between Donker Hoek and Houw Hoek, Burchell, 8017! near Grietjes Gat, between Lowry's Pass and Palmiet River, 2000–4000 ft., Zeyher! Swellendam Div.; dry hills, by the Breede River, Burchell, 7474! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River Heights, Bolus, 2499, ♀!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bergius! Harvey, 388 b, ♂! Sieber, ♂! Drège, 44 partly!

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