Chondropetalum erbacteatum. Cape Restio.

Chondropetalum ebracteatum.		Sunset Beach.
		Cape Town.

Adult Chondropetalum ebracteatum female left, young culms with sheath attached center and male right.



	Chondropetalum ebracteatum.
	The adult Chondropetalum ebracteatum female plant is shown left, male plant right and young culms before flowering with sheaths still attached in the in the centre. As illustrated by the pictures many of the restios have young plants that look very different from the adult plants. Typically, in the second winter a new set of culms is made, usually still with the seedling morphology and the first years growth dies back. Only in the third year do the plants reach the typical 'adult' morphology with the development of inflorescences. This Chondropetalum has its habitat in sandstone and is found at all altitudes and is especially common on the shallow soils of Table Mountain. There are Chondropetalum ebracteatum growing in the front garden at the Beach House. This plant is used as the example on our Restios page and details of the culms, sheaths and spikelets as well as an complete specimen of the same plant can be seen on this page.
			The photograph above shows the flower 5 times enlarged.
	Photographs of restios and text used on these pages from "Restios of the Fynbos" Els Dorrat Haaksma and H. Peter Linder. (c) Botanical Society of South Africa. 2000. My grateful thanks to Mrs. Haaksma for her friendly advice on developing these pages.

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Chondropetalum ebracteatum.