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Thamnochortus bromoides

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Name

Identification
Thamnochortus bromoides Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE ] Thamnochortus lucens (Poir.) H.P.Linder [family RESTIONACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Thamnochortus bromoides
  • Thamnochortus lucens
  • Thamnochortus dichotomus
  • Restio scariosus

Flora

Entry for THAMNOCHORTUS dichotomus R. Br. [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
THAMNOCHORTUS dichotomus R. Br. [family RESTIONACEAE], Prodr. 244, in note;—Kunth, Enum. iii. 433, partly; Steud. Synops. ii. 259; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 229; DC. Monog. Phan. i. 318.
Restio dichotomus Rottboell [family RESTIONACEAE], Descr. et Ic. 2, t. 1, fig. 1, not of Linnæus.
Restio Thamnochortus Thunb. [family RESTIONACEAE], Diss. 15; in Usteri, Delect. i. 50; Flor. Cap. ed. Schultes, 86; Thunb. herb. partly ex Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 420.
Restio paleaceus Nees [family RESTIONACEAE], partly, in various herbaria.
Thamnochortus consanguineus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 432.
Thamnochortus ecklonianus Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], ♀, Enum. iii. 430.
Thamnochortus bromoides Kunth [family RESTIONACEAE], Enum. iii. 432.
Information
rootstock creeping, covered with dark brown scales; stems 1–3 ft. high, erect, slender, terete, olivaceous, with white disc-like markings; fertile stems unbranched or only slightly forked; sterile stems shorter, much branched, leafy; leaf-sheaths tightly convolute, 1–1 1/2 in. long, coriaceous, dull brown, striate, membranous and lacerate at the tips; smaller sheaths villous and prolonged into a small leaf; male spikelets numerous, in terminal, much-branched, panicled cymes; main branches remote, spreading; spikelets 1/2 in. long, sessile or pedunculate, at first cylindric, acute, subsequently oblong, many-flowered; spathe bract-like, half the length of the spikelet; bracts ultimately loosely spreading at the tips, oblong, abruptly acuminate, pale, ferruginous, hyaline at the margins; outer lateral perianth-segments conduplicate, apiculate, scarcely keeled, the others oblong flattish; female plant like the male; female spikelets 7–12, loosely arranged in a terminal, linear, little-branched cyme each 1/4– 1/2 in. long, oblong subglobose; spathe lanceolate acute; bracts lanceolate, abruptly acute; perianth suborbicular, compressed, arcuate; outer lateral segments deeply keeled, glabrous; the remainder shorter, oblong, flattish; fruit subglobose. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Grasberg River and Watervals River, 2500–3000 ft., Drège, 135, ♂! Cape Div.; Devils Mountain, 1800 ft., Bolus, 4758! Table Mountain or Devils Mountain, Drège, 138a, ♀! Table Mountain, Drège, 49 partly! Ecklon, 838, ♀! sandy places near Cape Town, Bolus, 2882, ♂! 4431, ♂! 4436, ♂! mountains near Constantia, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 501, ♂! Cape Flats, Burke, ♂! between Cape Town and Table Mountain, Burchell, 924, ♀! Camps Bay, Zeyher, 1741, ♂ and ♀! Burchell, 333, ♂! Tulbagh Div.; mountains in the vicinity of New Kloof, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1678, ♂! Caledon Div.; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon and Zeyher! Worcester Div.; Drakenstein Mountains, near Bains Kloof, 1600–2000 ft., Bolus, 4105, ♂! 4091, ♀! Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 133, ♂ and ♀! 1614, ♂! Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill, ♂! Caledon Div.; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, Burchell, 8126, ♂ and ♀! MacOwan, 3046, ♀! mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7595, ♂ and ♀!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sieber, 114, ♀! 116, ♂! 223! Drège, 136! 191!
Notes
Very variable and sometimes difficult to distingush from T. elongatus, with which it is frequently associated by collectors and in herbaria. The bracts of the latter plant are more straight-sided, deltoid, and not curved at the margins.

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