Thamnochortus cinereus H.P.Linder

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Restionaceae > Thamnochortus

Characteristics

Plants tufted, 0.8-4.0 m high; rhizome very short. Culms unbranched, velvety pubescent, silvery grey; without rigid leaf blades; sterile branches from nodes of fertile culms present while flowering. Leaf sheaths closely convolute, apical margins chartaceous and decaying, hyaline shoulders high, acute. Male inflorescences with up to 100 spikelets; spathes persistent, upper margins lacerated. Spikelets pendulous on flexible pedicels. Bracts taller than flowers, hyaline. Female inflorescences with 6-50 spikelets; spathes persistent, chartaceous, longer than spikelets. Spikelets 20-40 mm long; pedicels simple or branched. Ovary unilocular; single style plumose, white. Flowering time Apr.-Sept. Fruit an indehiscent nut.
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Dioecious, tufted perennial to 80 cm, fertile culms simple, with long and soft sterile branches clustered at nodes.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Images

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Distribution

Thamnochortus cinereus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:928937-1
WFO ID wfo-0000570724
COL ID 563BQ
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Synonyms

Thamnochortus cinereus Thamnochortus argenteus