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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
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- 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:
Restio
()
- Rottboell, 1772, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
triticeus
- Rottb.
- Botanical name: - Restio triticeus Rottb.
- Specific epithet:
triticeus
- Rottb.
- Genus:
Restio
(
- Family:
Restionaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Poanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Calopsis triticea (Rottb.) Kunth
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Restio
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Further Reading
- Dictionary of the common names of plants with list of foreign plants cultivated in the open / by Rudolf Marloth. Cape Town: Specialty Press of South Africa, 1917. url p. 137.
- Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 14 1904 Cape Town, : The Society. url p. 346.
- Wu Kuo-fang. 1997. Restionaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 5--7.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8386854
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-261384
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15815544
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:716435-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 716435-1
- MoBot NameID: 27400552
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1388388
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]
