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Restio echinatus

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Name

Identification
Restio echinatus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Restio squarrosus Poir. [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Restio echinatus
  • Restio squarrosus

Flora

Entry for RESTIO squarrosus Poir. [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 squarrosus Poir. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Lam. Encycl. vi. 174;—Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 228; DC. Monog. Phan. 236.
Restio echinatus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 384; Steud. Synop. ii. 250.
Information
stems 2 ft. high, slender, simple or sparingly branched, terete, coarsely tubercled; sheaths about 1/2 in. long, tightly convolute, terminating in a subulate, appressed mucro; male spikelets 2–5, clustered in a one-sided cyme, each about 1/4 in. long, oblong, erect or spreading, supported at the base by a short, bract-like spathe; bracts ovate-lanceolate, prolonged at the apex into a long recurved awn; flowers oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the bracts; outer perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate; lateral conduplicate, villous-keeled; inner subequal, flatter; anthers linear-oblong, apiculate; ovary ovoid-globose; style bifid; capsule 2-celled. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 49 partly, ♂!

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