Restionaceae, the Glossary

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1. 99 relations: Africa, Alexgeorgea, Anarthria, Anarthriaceae, Anemophily, Anthochortus, APG II system, APG IV system, APG system, Aphelia (plant), Apodasmia (plant), Apodasmia chilensis, Askidiosperma, Australia, Baloskion, Bamboo, Calorophus, Cannomois, Cape Floristic Region, Cape Town, Catacolea, Centrolepidaceae, Centrolepis, Ceratocaryum, Chaetanthus, Chordifex, Coleocarya, Commelinids, Cretaceous, Cronquist system, Cyperaceae, Cytogonidium, Dapsilanthus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Desmocladus, Dielsia, Drakensberg, Elegia (plant), Elegia capensis, Empodisma, Eurychorda, Family (biology), Flowering plant, Fynbos, Gaimardia, Gaimardia australis, Gondwana, Hopkinsia, Hydrophilus rattrayi, Hypodiscus, ... Expand index (49 more) »

2. Extant Maastrichtian first appearances
3. Poales families

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Alexgeorgea

Alexgeorgea is a genus of three plant species found in Western Australia belonging to the family Restionaceae named in honour of the botanist Alex George in 1976.

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Anarthria

Anarthria is a genus of flowering plant species endemic to Southwest Australia.

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Anarthriaceae

The Anarthriaceae was a family of three genera, Anarthria, Hopkinsia and Lyginia of flowering plants, now included in Restionaceae following APG IV (2016). Restionaceae and Anarthriaceae are Poales families.

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Anemophily

Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.

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Anthochortus

Anthochortus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1837.

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APG II system

The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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APG IV system

The APG IV system of flowering plant classification is the fourth version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy for flowering plants (angiosperms) being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

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APG system

The APG system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system) of plant classification is the first version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy.

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Aphelia (plant)

Aphelia is a genus of plants in the Restionaceae family.

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Apodasmia (plant)

Apodasmia is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1998.

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Apodasmia chilensis

Apodasmia chilensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Restionaceae.

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Askidiosperma

Askidiosperma is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1850.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Baloskion

Baloskion is a genus of rush-like plants from Australia.

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Bamboo

Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Calorophus

Calorophus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1806.

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Cannomois

Cannomois is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1828.

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Cape Floristic Region

The Cape Floral Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Catacolea

Catacolea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Centrolepidaceae

Centrolepidaceae was a family of flowering plants now included in Restionaceae following APG IV (2016). Restionaceae and Centrolepidaceae are Poales families.

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Centrolepis

Centrolepis is a genus of small herbaceous plants in the family Restionaceae known as thorn grass scales, with about 25 species native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and south-east Asia as far north as Hainan Dao.

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Ceratocaryum

Ceratocaryum is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1836.

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Chaetanthus

Chaetanthus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1810.

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Chordifex

Chordifex is a genus of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1998.

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Coleocarya

Coleocarya is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1943.

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Commelinids

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) is a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing ferulic acid.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants.

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Cyperaceae

The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. Restionaceae and Cyperaceae are Poales families.

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Cytogonidium

Cytogonidium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Dapsilanthus

Dapsilanthus is a genus of plants described as a genus in 1998.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Desmocladus

Desmocladus is a genus of herbs in the family Restionaceae, all species of which are endemic to Australia, and found in Western Australia and South Australia.

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Dielsia

Dielsia is a genus of flowering plant, described in 1904, in the family Restionaceae.

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Drakensberg

The Drakensberg (Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maloti, Afrikaans: Drakensberge) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.

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Elegia (plant)

Elegia is a genus of grass-like plants in the family Restionaceae endemic to Cape Province in South Africa.

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Elegia capensis

Elegia capensis, called the horsetail restio, is a species of grasslike flowering plant in the genus Elegia, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

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Empodisma

Empodisma is a genus of herbaceous rush-like plants in the family Restionaceae first described in 1974.

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Eurychorda

Eurychorda is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Restionaceae formally described in 1998.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.

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Fynbos

Fynbos is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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Gaimardia

Gaimardia is a genus of plants in the Restionaceae family.

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Gaimardia australis

Gaimardia australis is a species of flowering plant in the family Restionaceae.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Hopkinsia

Hopkinsia is a genus of plants in the family Restionaceae, first described as a genus in 1904.

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Hydrophilus rattrayi

Hydrophilus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1984.

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Hypodiscus

Hypodiscus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck and described as a genus in 1836.

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Hypolaena

Hypolaena is a plant genus in the family Restionaceae, described as a genus in 1810.

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Juncaceae

Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family. Restionaceae and Juncaceae are Poales families.

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Kew

Kew is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Kirstenbosch is an important botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town.

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Kogelberg

The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lepidobolus

Lepidobolus is a plant genus in the family Restionaceae, described as a genus in 1846.

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Leptocarpus (plant)

Leptocarpus is a genus of dioeceous rush-like perennial plants described as a genus in 1810.

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Lepyrodia

Lepyrodia is a plant genus in the family Restionaceae, described as a genus in 1810.

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Liliopsida

Liliopsida Batsch (synonym: Liliatae) is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family).

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Limpopo

Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa.

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Loxocarya

Loxocarya is a plant genus in the family Restionaceae, described as a genus in 1810.

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Lyginia

Lyginia is a genus of three rhizomatous plant species all endemic to South Western Australia.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Mastersiella

Mastersiella is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1930.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Melanostachya

Melanostachya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Nevillea

Nevillea is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1984.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Plants of the World Online

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Platycaulos

Platycaulos is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1984.

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Platychorda

Platychorda is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Poaceae

Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. Restionaceae and Poaceae are Poales families.

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Poales

The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, rushes and sedges. Restionaceae and Poales are Extant Maastrichtian first appearances.

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Restio

Restio is a genus of flowering plants within the family Restionaceae, described in 1772.

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Restionales

Restionales is an order of flowering plants.

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Rhodocoma

Rhodocoma is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1836.

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Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)

Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Soroveta

Soroveta is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Sporadanthus

Sporadanthus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae first described as a genus in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller.

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Staberoha

Staberoha is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1841.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Taraxis

Taraxis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Thamnochortus

Thamnochortus is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1767.

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Tremulina

Tremulina is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Tyrbastes

Tyrbastes is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Restionaceae.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Western Cape

The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.

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Willdenowia (plant)

Willdenowia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Restionaceae described as a genus in 1790.

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Winifredia

Winifredia is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1986.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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See also

Extant Maastrichtian first appearances

• Aequornithes
• Amphisbaenidae
• Anseriformes
• Araceae
• Argentina (fish)
• Argyrotheca
• Arius (fish)
• Azolla
• Betulaceae
• Boidae
• Boreoeutheria
• Butterflyfish
• Chelydridae
• Cusk-eel
• Fowl
• Gadiformes
• Gaviiformes
• Gruiformes
• Heterenchelyidae
• Hippoidea
• Liliaceae
• Metasequoia
• Neognathae
• Notopteridae
• Odontoanserae
• Orontium
• Pangalloanserae
• Pilumnoidea
• Poales
• Proteidae
• Pythonichthys
• Restionaceae
• Retroplumidae
• Sturgeon
• Turricula (gastropod)
• Typhaceae

Poales families

• Anarthriaceae
• Bromeliaceae
• Centrolepidaceae
• Cyperaceae
• Ecdeiocoleaceae
• Eriocaulaceae
• Joinvilleaceae
• Juncaceae
• Poaceae
• Rapateaceae
• Restionaceae
• Thurniaceae
• Typhaceae
• Xyridaceae

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restionaceae

Also known as Restiaceae, Restiad, Restios.

, Hypolaena, Juncaceae, Kew, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Kogelberg, Late Cretaceous, Lepidobolus, Leptocarpus (plant), Lepyrodia, Liliopsida, Limpopo, Loxocarya, Lyginia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mastersiella, Mediterranean Sea, Melanostachya, Monocotyledon, Mpumalanga, Nevillea, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Plants of the World Online, Platycaulos, Platychorda, Poaceae, Poales, Restio, Restionales, Rhodocoma, Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Soroveta, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, Sporadanthus, Staberoha, Tanzania, Taraxis, Thamnochortus, Tremulina, Tyrbastes, Western Australia, Western Cape, Willdenowia (plant), Winifredia, Zimbabwe.