Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Hypolaena R.Br.: 251 (1810); Masters: 130 (1897); Pillans: 390 (1928) in part.
Description:
Plants caespitose to more commonly forming low, tangled cushions. Rhizomes 0. Culms branching. Leaf sheaths tightly convolute. Maleinflorescence of few to many small, cone-like spikelets; spathes similar to sheaths, caducous. Malespikelets: bracts cartilaginous, many, all fertile; perianth segments 6(3); anthers exserted at anthesis. Femaleinflorescence of 1-few large spikelets; spathes persistent. Femalespikelets: bracts osseous, closely convolute, only 1 fertile; perianth stipitate or sessile, segments 6(3), membranous, subequal; ovary 1-locular; styles 2, free to base, plumose, longer than ovary. Fruit a shiny black nutlet with an elaiosome.
Distribution:
Species +/- 3, Western Cape.
Classification:
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