Overview
Interesting Facts
Description
Family Restionaceae
Herbs perennial
, mostly dioecious, rarely monoecious or hermaphroditic
. Rhizomes usually covered with imbricate scales
; scales glabrous or with various types of unicellular or multicellular
hairs
. Stem erect
, simple
or branched, terete
, quadrangular
, or compressed
; nodes solid; internodes solid or hollow. Leaves alternate, mostly scattered
along stem, usually reduced to an open leaf sheath
with a rudimentary
blade
; leaf sheath closely appressed
to stem or inflated
; ligule usually obscure
or absent, apex sometimes elongate
. Male and female inflorescences sometimes dissimilar, of (1- to) many-flowered spikelets
or much branched and occasionally with leafy bracts; bracteoles chaffy
. Flowers mostly unisexual
, small; male flowers sometimes with a pistillode
; female flowers sometimes with staminodes. Perianth usually in 2 whorls, seldom reduced or absent; segments scalelike. Stamens (1--) 3(or 4), inserted
opposite inner perianth segments; filaments
free
or rarely connate
; anthers
1(or 2) -loculed, introrse
or seldom latrorse
, dehiscing by longitudinal
slits; pollen grains
2- or 3-nucleate, 1-porate. Ovary 1--3-loculed; ovule 1 per locule, pendulous, orthotropous
. Styles 1--3, free or basally connate; stigma elongate, often plumose
. Fruit a nut or loculicidal capsule, usually small. Endosperm copious
, mealy
; embryo biconvex
, small.
About 55 genera and 490 species: widely distributed in the S hemisphere, best developed in SW Africa and SW Australia: one species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Poanae
()
- (Small, 1903) Takhtajan, 1997 Ex Reveal & Doweld, 1999
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Restionaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810
- Restio Family
- Genus:
Coleocarya
()
- Specific epithet:
gracilis
- S.T.Blake
- Botanical name: - Coleocarya gracilis S.T.Blake
- Specific epithet:
gracilis
- S.T.Blake
- Genus:
Coleocarya
(
- Family:
Restionaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Poanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Coleocarya
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Further Reading
- Wu Kuo-fang. 1997. Restionaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 5--7.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 04, 2008)
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 16, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3487457
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-233617
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13281776
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:85448-3
- GRIN Nomen Number: 451082
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 85448-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1036125
Footnotes
- Guofang Wu & Kai Larsen "Restionaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 2. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
