Entry for RESTIO cincinnatus 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
RESTIO cincinnatusMast. [family RESTIONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 240;—Mast. in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. 267.
Restio vimineus var. β [family RESTIONACEAE], Thunberg Herb. ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 420.
Information
stem 12–18 in. high, terete, much branched from the centre upwards; branchlets very slender, curled, wrinkled and studded with white tubercles; leaf-sheaths nearly 1/2 in. long, closely tubular, with two membranous lobes beneath the mucronate apex; male spikes solitary or two, each about 1/4 in. long, cylindric-lanceolate; spathe oblong, obtuse, acuminate, half the length of the spike; bracts similar to the spathe, with one appressed mucro; flowers oblong; perianth-segments rigid, oblong; outer lateral villous-keeled; inner thinner, shorter; female spikes 1–2, about 1/4 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, straight or slightly curved, clavate when in fruit; flower solitary; bracts and perianth segments as in the male; intermediate outer segment as well as the 3 inner somewhat involute at the margins; ovary globose; capsule obliquely ovate, subcompressed, 1-celled by abortion, surmounted by the remains of the style. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; mountains near Simons Town, 1000–2000 ft., Ecklon and Zeyher! Ceres Div.; at the foot of mountains around Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 5489, ♂!
