Perennial, dioecious, scrambling herbs. Rhizomes shortly creeping, glabrous. Stems green, thin and wiry, branched and flexuose, somewhat tangled. Leaves reduced to persistent sheathing bracts. Male and female inflorescences ± similar. Male spikelets 1 or 2 together in axils of leaf-like bracts; each spikelet 1-flowered and subtended by 2 glume-like floral bracts (1 reduced). Male flowers with 6, firm, brown perianth parts. Female spikelets terminal, pedicellate, solitary, 1-flowered and subtended by 2 glume-like floral bracts. Female flowers with 6, firm, brown perianth parts; staminodes 3; ovary unilocular; style with 3 branches. Fruit a small ovoid nut, striate.
2 species, 1 in Victoria.
Source:
Conn, B.J. (1994). Restionaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 179–190. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
