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Restionaceae - Dovea Kunth

Description :

  • Plants loosely caespitose
  • Rhizomes well developed, extensively creeping
  • Culms branching
  • Leaf sheaths caducous
  • Male inflorescence of many small paniculate spikelets, aggregated at several fertile nodes
  • Male spikelets : pollen released inside perianth segments
  • Female inflorescence of a few large racemose spikelets; spathes caducous, soon exposing spikelets
  • Female spikelets : 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

Nomenclature:

  • Dovea Kunth
    • Kunth: 457 (1841)
    • Masters: 99 (1897), including Chondropetalum Rottb.
    • Linder: 431 (1985)
    • Linder: 247 (1991)
  • Chondropetalum Rottb.
    • Pillans: 297 (1928) in part

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Dovea macrocarpa Kunth, Western Cape: Clanwilliam and Piquetberg Districts

References:

  • KUNTH, C.S. 1841. Enumeratio plantarum , Vol. 3. Cotta, Stuttgart
  • LINDER, H.P. 1985. Conspectus of the African species of Restionaceae . Bothalia 15
  • LINDER, H.P. 1991. A review of the southern African Restionaceae . Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 13
  • MASTERS, M.T. 1897. Restiaceae . Flora capensis 7
  • PILLANS, N.S. 1928. The African genera and species of Restionaceae . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 16