Baloskion tetraphyllum

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Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms  > Monocots >  Poales > Restionaceae > Baloskion tetraphyllum

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Plant  information

Common name:               Tassel Rope-rush  

• Also, plume rush and Australian reed

Conservation status:   unknown

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• It is a rush-like plant in the family Restionaceae

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• Taxonomy

  • The species was formally described in 1806 by French naturalist Jacques Labillardière in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen

  • He gave it the name Restio tetraphyllus

  • Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs placed it in the genus Baloskion in 1998

Sources of information:

• (2023)