''Elegia capensis'', called the horsetail restio, is a species of grasslike flowering plant in the genus ''

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'', native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It has gained the

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capensis Endemic flora of South Africa Plants described in 1967 Taxa named by Nicolaas Laurens Burman {{Poales-stub