Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder
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Elegia tectorum

Family: RESTIONACEAE
Genus: Elegia
Species: tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder
Common names: Cape Thatching Reed
Distribution summary: South Africa
Habit: Perennial
Habitat: Marshes and deep sand
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Southern Hemisphere Wolfson bed (N)
Reason for growing: Other use

Additional Notes

Used to be known as Chondropetalum tectorum until DNA testing showed Chondropetalum was Elegia.

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Once used as a thatching reed.

Brown, N, Jamieson, H, Botha, P. (2004). Grow Restios, National Biodiversity Institute P.23

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