Meney, Pate & Dixon, New species of Restionaceae 
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Flowering; September-October. Seed-shed: September-October. Seedlings: First seedling 
leaves linear. Primary culms of seedlings flattened and bearing numerous elongate, 
green flattened leaves. 
Affinities: Similar in tufted habit and general morphology to Loxocarya striata and to 
L. cinerea R.Br. but easily distinguished from the former taxa by its unilocular fruits, 
and from both by the culm height and fruit size. 
Fig. 8. Loxocarya inagna K. A. Meney & K. W. Dixon. A, female culm (x 0.6); B, male culm (x 0.6); 
C, rhizome and culm bases (x 0.5); D, culm sheath (x 6); E, female spikelet (x 7); F, female flower 
(x 6); G, male spikelet (x 6); H, male flower (x 6). 
