Meney, Pate & Dixon, New species of Restionaceae 
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long. Culms terete, smooth, unbranched, hollow except at base, blue-green, 1.8-2.6 mm in 
diameter, finely pubescent with a reddish flush at culm nodes and immediately above 
culm sheaths, usually with both taller vegetative culms and sparse shorter reproductive 
culms present; culms bases distinctly swollen; culm sheaths brown, 10-15 sterile, upper 
1-4 fertile, light brown with prominent transparent scarious margins, closely appressed to 
culms, 11—16 mm long, finally striated; mucro 5-7 mm long encased in translucent margins. 
Male spikelets ovoid-elongate, 4-6 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, in nodding, pedicellate clusters 
arranged in a loose terminal panicle, 15-40 spikelets per culm; glumes 20-30, broadly 
lanceolate with scarious margins, 1.5-1.8 mm long, 0.7-0.9 mm broad, bearing a mucro 
0.1 mm long. Male flmvers: 20-30 per spikelet, brown, tepals 6, narrow-hnear, 1-1.5 mm 
Fig. 6. Leptocarpus crassipes J.S. Pate & K.A. Meney. A, female culm (x 0.4); B, male culm (x 0.4); 
C, rhizome and lower culm bases (x 0.6); D, section through rhizome and lower culm showing 
aerenchyma, indicated by arrow (x 2); E, culm sheath (x 2); F, female spikelet (x 6); G, female flower 
(x 7); H, male spikelet (x 4); I, male flower (x 3.5). 
