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Restio ramiflorus

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Identification
Restio ramiflorus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Leptocarpus paniculatus (Rottb.) Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Restio rhodocoma
  • Rhodocoma equisetum
  • Leptocarpus paniculatus
  • Restio ramiflorus
  • Rhodocoma capensis

Flora

Entry for LEPTOCARPUS paniculatus Mast. [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
LEPTOCARPUS paniculatus Mast. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 221;—Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. i. 330.
Restio paniculatus Rottboell [family RESTIONACEAE], Descr. et Ic. 4, t. 2, fig. 3; Linn. Herb. ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 590.
Restio fruticosus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE], Diss. 16, n. 14; Kunth, Enum. iii. 413.
Restio ramiflorus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE], in Linnæa, v. 644.
Calopsis paniculata Desv. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. xiii. (1828) 44, t. 3, fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iii. 421; Steud. Synops. ii. 257.
Information
stems 2–3 ft. high, erect, much-branched; branches compressed, olive-coloured, purple-spotted, ultimate branches leaf-bearing; leaf-sheaths 1 in. long, tightly convolute, striate, smaller ones deeply bi-lobed; lobes hyaline; apex mucronate, leafy; male and female spikelets very numerous, in much-branched, spreading, panicled cymes, each spikelet about 1/4 in. long, obovate-oblong; spathe bract-like; bracts oblong, obtuse, hyaline near the acuminate apex; flowers ovate, rather shorter than the bracts; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse; lateral conduplicate; inner smaller, flattish; anthers oblong, apiculate; pistillodium small; female spikelets like the male; staminodes 3; ovary oblong, triquetrous; styles 3; fruit 3-angled. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchell, 405! Table Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 140! Ecklon, 840! Cape Flats, Ecklon, 568! between Wynberg and Devils Mountain, Drège, 167! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 167a! 167b! Caledon Div.; banks of rivers near Houw Hoek, 950 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1667, ♂! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 4346! Ecklon and Zeyher, 540! 922!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 506! Natal; rocky valley near Bevaan Falls, Wood, 3195!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, ♂! Burchell, 5813! Mund! Thom! Drège, 5! 167b!
Notes
Varies in stature and in the form of the bracts. The form with very small spikelets occurring in Tembuland may turn out to be the type of a distinct species.

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