Dovea

Kunth
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Chondropetalum Rottb.; Pillans: 297 (1928) in part.
Description: 
Plants loosely caespitose. Rhizomes well developed, extensively creeping. Culms branching. Leaf sheaths caducous. Maleinflorescence of many small paniculate spikelets, aggregated at several fertile nodes. Malespikelets: pollen released inside perianth segments. Female inflorescence of a few large racemose spikelets; spathes caducous, soon exposing spikelets. Femalespikelets: perianth segments osseous, brown, subequal, outer lateral ones not keeled; staminodes well developed; ovary 3-locular; styles 3, plumose. Fruit dehiscent. Seeds large, highly ornamented.
Distribution: 
Species 1: Dovea macrocarpa Kunth, Western Cape: Clanwilliam and Piquetberg Districts.
Classification: 
RESTIONACEAE

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