The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to ...
Restionaceae
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The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Restionaceae
Family: Restionaceae; R.Br.
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The Restionaceae are distinctive in being perennial, rhizomatous, mostly dioecious herbs with photosynthetic erect stems, leaves reduced to sheaths, ...
The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of annual or perennial rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; ...
a family of monocotyledonous herbs (order Xyridales) that resemble rushes and have either no leaves or tiny sheathing ones and glumaceous panicled flowers.
A southern hemisphere family, with most species in southwestern South Africa and western Australia. Also occurs in Chile, Madagascar, New Zealand and Malaysia.
Description: Perennial herbs with a rush- or sedge-like habit; tufted or with creeping rhizomes often partly covered by scales; or (subfamily Centrolepidoideae) ...
Linder H. P., Briggs B. G. & Johnson L. A. S. (1998). Restionaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, IV: 425–445.
Restios are ancient plants native to South Africa their closest relative is conifers but they look like grass/reeds. None is perfectly hardy in our climate and ...
General Information. Herbs perennial, mostly dioecious, rarely monoecious or hermaphroditic. Rhizomes usually covered with imbricate scales; scales glabrous or ...
Evergreen, rushlike plants, generally dioecious or rarely monoecious; caespitose, rhizomatous or stoloniferous. Culms photosynthetic, simple or branching ...