''Thamnochortus'' is a group of plants in the
Restionaceae
The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former famil ...
described as a genus in 1767.
[Tropicos, ''Thamnochortus'' P.J.Bergius]
/ref>[Bergius, Peter Jonas. 1767. Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei 353] 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 else ...
to 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 ...
in South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
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; Species[
; formerly included][
moved to other genera: '' Cannomois Hypodiscus ]Restio
''Restio'' is a genus of flowering plants within the family Restionaceae, described in 1772.Rottbøll, Christen Friis. 1772. Descriptiones Plantarum Rariorum 9 The entire genus is endemic to South Africa (Cape Province and KwaZulu-Natal).
In c ...
Rhodocoma Staberoha''
References
Restionaceae
Endemic flora of South Africa
Flora of the Cape Provinces
Fynbos
Poales genera
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