Restio

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Scientific Names

Read about Restio in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Restio (Latin, rope, alluding to the use made of the plants in S. Afr.). Restiaceae. Perennial herbs with a tufted or creeping rootstock, of little horticultural significance: sts. terete, compressed or 4-sided, with remote sheathing lf.-sheaths, usually more or less mucronate, sometimes prolonged into a linear blunt lf.: male and female infl. similar or dissimilar, spicate, spikes solitary or spikelets numerous in spicate or panicled cymes; fls. dioecious, 1-bracteate; perianth usually of 6, sometimes 4 segms. in 2 rows, rarely none; ovary 2- or 3-celled: caps. 2- or 3-celled, or by abortion 1-celled, 1 seed in each cell. About 170 species, half of them from S. W. Afr. the remainder from S. W. Austral. R. subverticillatus, Mast. Sts. erect, 3—4 ft. high, with verticillate branches: sheaths about 1 in. long, coriaceous, striate above, membranous, spreading, acuminate, smaller sheaths foliaceous from beneath a 2-lobed hyaline apex: perianth-segms., male, broadly oblong, the lateral villous-keeled, female broader: caps, obliquely ovate, 1-celled, 1-seeded. S. Afr. G.M. 43:76. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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