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Genus Empodisma Family Restionaceae

Description: Dioecious perennial herbs, tufted or rhizome shortly creeping. Culms green, thin and wiry, branched and often flexuous, bearing distant persistent sheaths with a small rudimentary lamina. Male and female inflorescences not very different. Male spikelets several together, rarely solitary, several flowered. Female spikelets solitary, 1-flowered. Male tepals 6, membranous; stamens 3; anthers 1-locular. Female tepals 6 or 4; staminodes absent; ovary 1-locular; style branches 2 or 3.

Fruit an ovoid, pale, smooth, nut.


Habit
Photo P.G. Kodela

Distribution and occurrence: World: 2 species, Australia, & New Zealand. Australia: 2 species (1 species endemic), Qld, N.S.W. Vic., Tas., S.A.

Text by A. L. Quirico & B. G. Briggs
Taxon concept:

One species in NSW: Empodisma minus

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