Baloskion

Restios

Male and female inflorescences either similar or dissimilar, 1–many-flowered, sessile or pedicellate, panicle-like or racemes or solitary and then axillary or terminal
Glumes imbricate; bracteoles absent
Tepals 4–6, glume-like, not exceeding the glumes in length
Male stamens 2 or 3; filaments filiform, free; anther 1-locular; rudimentary ovary small or absent
Female staminodes 2 or 3 or absent; ovary 2-[or 3-] locular; style branches 2 [or 3], more or less united towards the base

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Leaves with lamina usually absent, except in juvenile plants, or sometimes lamina reduced and linear or terete.

Stem & branches:

Culms green, simple or branched, erect or diffuse, straight or flexuous
Bearing persistent sheathing scales which are crowded and imbricate near the base but more distant above

Roots:

With a hard, creeping, partly erect rhizome
This is usually covered by imbricate, scarious scales, beneath which (in the Australia species), there are dense woolly hairs

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