Citation: L., Syst. Nat. edn 12:752 (1767).

Derivation: Latin restio, a rope maker; some South African species have been used for thatching and making cords.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems erect; rootstock creeping, often woolly.

Flowers dioecious; glumes imbricate; perianth-segments 4-6, the inner ones almost hyaline; stamens 2 or 3, with 1-celled anthers; ovary 2- or 3-celled; styles free, 2 or 3; flowers more or less concealed behind the imbricate glumes and forming small spikelets which are usually arranged in a particle.

Fruit a capsule, flat and 2-celled in our species.

Distribution:  About 110 species all South African or Australian, the Australian species numbering about 30, all endemic.

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Johnson & Briggs, in Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plants in Australia, consider that Restio is confined to Africa and that the Australian species will have to be placed in 2 distinct genera.

Key to Species:

1. Stems flat, unbranched	R. complanatus 1.
1. Stems terete, branched	R. tetraphyllus 2.

Author: Not yet available