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Restio filiformis

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Identification
Restio filiformis Poir. [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Restio
  • Restio sonderianus
  • Craspedolepis verreauxii
  • Restio bifidus
  • Restio triflorus
  • Restio oligostachyus
  • Restio filicaulis
  • Restio garnotianus
  • Restio multicurvus
  • Restio similis
  • Restio monostachyus
  • Restio filiformis

Flora

Entry for RESTIO filiformis 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 filiformis Poir. [family RESTIONACEAE], Encycl. vi. 173
RESTIO filiformis Poir. [family RESTIONACEAE], in the Paris herbarium.
RESTIO garnotianus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 392; Steud. Synops. ii. 251; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 254; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 280.
RESTIO bifidus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE], in Linnæa, v. 636; Kunth, Enum. iii. 409; Steud. Synops. ii. 250; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 253, not of Thunberg.
RESTIO triflorus Thunb. Herb. ex Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 417.
Craspedolepis Verreauxii Steud. [family ], Synops. ii. 264.
Craspedolepis fimbriata Mast. [family ], in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 280.
Information
stems tufted, 1–2 ft. high, terete, slender, simple or slightly branched, olivaceous, white-spotted; leaf-sheaths 1/4– 1/2 in. long, closely convolute, coriaceous below, thinner above; apex subulate-mucronate; male spikelets 1–3, sessile or slightly stalked, oblong-ovate, acute, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; spathe bract-like, shorter than the spikelet; bracts ovate-oblong, coriaceous, pitted, thinner or white-membranous at the margins; apex subulate, mucronate; flowers oblong, stalked; outer perianth-segments rigid; lateral conduplicate, villous-carinate; inner shorter, thinner; anthers oblong; pistillodium 3-styled; female spikelets 3–4-flowered; perianth as in the male, sometimes more rigid; staminodes liguliform; ovary roundish, subtrigonous; styles 3; capsule 2-celled. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder Bergen, at Ezels Bank, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 2473! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Drège, 197, ♀! Ecklon, 77! between Cape Town and Table Mountain, Burchell, 925! near Cape Town, Bolus, 2887! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, near Tulbagh, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1668, ♂! Ceres Div.; mountains near Ceres, 2400 ft., Bolus, 5292! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 1000–4000 ft., Drège, partly! 1628a! Caledon Div.; mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7647! mountain near Grietjes Gat, between Lowrys Pass and Palmiet River, 1000–2000ft., Ecklon and Zeyher! Zwartberg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 4343! Alexandria Div.; Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3409! Var. β, Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1624, ♀! Uniondale Div.; between Welgelegen and  Onzer, 1500–2000 ft., Drège, 37 partly, ♀! Var. γ, Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 840! 846! Milne, 218! MacGillivray, 436!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bergius! Boivin! Drège, 59!
Notes
Very variable in stature and in the number of the spikelets.

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