Empodisma minus (Empodisma minus)
Description
The stems are 15–200 cm long, numerously branched, semi-terete and dark green to dark brown in colour.The stem keeps upright when short, yet becomes procumbent when tall. The stem has 5.5–12 mm long sheaths that seemingly divide it to multiple segments. The sheaths are reduced leaves which keep close to the stem and have whitish axillary hairs. Spikelets, the primary inflorescence of the grass, are usually solitary and sessile in males and females, however, axillary in the males but in the upper axils in the females. The fruit of E. minus is a hard oval nut,sessile and approximately 2 mm long.The plant has a robust rhizome with a diameter of about 8 mm and numerous roots that ascend horizontally.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Restionaceae
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Genus: Empodisma
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