Family: Restionaceae
Restio tetraphyllus
Citation:
Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:77 (1806).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Tassel cord-rush, feather plant.
Description:
Stems stiff, slender, cylindrical, with sheathing bracts appressed, becoming brown, 1-2 cm long, the middle bracts producing filiform much-divided barren branches 10-15 cm long, the barren branchlets with minute distant leaves or scales of which the sheaths and subulate blades are each c. 2 mm long.
Spikelets several-flowered, ovoid to nearly globular, 6-10 mm long, the acuminate imbricate glumes much longer than and concealing the small flowers; the spikelets arranged in both sexes along the erect branches of a rather loose usually long panicle (to 20 cm or more); male perianth-segments 6, unequal; female perianth-segments 4, the 2 outer ones lanceolate and folded; styles 2.
Capsule flat.
Published illustration:
Williams (1980) Native plants of Queensland, p. 253.
Distribution:
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Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: mainly Jan — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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