Rhodocoma Gigantea
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''Rhodocoma'' is a group of plants in the
Restionaceae The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family (biology), family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV system, APG IV (2016): the fami ...
described as a genus in 1836.Tropicos, ''Rhodocoma'' Nees
/ref>Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1836. Introduction to a Natural System of Botany 450 The entire genus is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
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Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope ( af, Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( af, Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( af, Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequen ...
and
KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Restionaceae Endemic flora of South Africa Flora of KwaZulu-Natal Flora of the Cape Provinces Fynbos Poales genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck {{Poales-stub