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- Elegia_tectorum abstract "Elegia tectorum, previously Chondropetalum tectorum or Restio tectorum, more commonly Cape thatching reed, or dakriet (in Afrikaans), is a member of the restio family, Restionaceae. It is a tufted perennial growing to between 1.5 and 2.25 m, with deciduous leaf sheaths. Flowers are less than 3 mm long. Petals are smooth or hairy in the upper half. E. tectorum is found in marshes and seeps on deep sand in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape of South Africa.The species was originally noted by Carl Linnaeus the Younger. In 1838, E. tectorum was noted by Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (as R. Tectorum) for its use as a thatching material, and in the making of brooms and baskets. Historically, only the taller forms of the species, growing in the surroundings of Malmesbury, was used for thatching; the more popular thatching reed was Thamnochortus insignis. Carl Peter Thunberg also noted the use in thatching in 1793, as did English botanist John Lindley in 1846. Thurnberg notes the Dutch East India Company had a farm at Zeekoe Valley (17km SSE of the Castle of Good Hope), where the reed was cultivated. He describes its use at the Cape of Good Hope as follows: A bundle or sheath, after it is cut with a sickle is held by the top, and all the shorter stalks that are loose in it, are shaken off from it. The remaining long ones are then spread out in rows to dry, and afterwards tied up in bundles. With this the houses are commonly thatched both in town and in country; and sometimes whole huts are built with it. A roof made of it lasts 20 or 30 years, and would last much longer if the south-east wind did not blow a great deal of dirt between the thatch, in consequence of which it rots the sooner.E. tectorum was later called Chondropetalum tectorum, but cladistic analysis, conducted by Moline and Linder (2005) found that the genera of Chondropetalum and Dovea were imbedded in Elegia.".
- Elegia_tectorum binomialAuthority Carl_Linnaeus_the_Younger.
- Elegia_tectorum class Monocotyledon.
- Elegia_tectorum division Flowering_plant.
- Elegia_tectorum family Restionaceae.
- Elegia_tectorum genus Elegia_(plant).
- Elegia_tectorum kingdom Plant.
- Elegia_tectorum order Commelinids.
- Elegia_tectorum order Poales.
- Elegia_tectorum thumbnail Elegia_tectorum_KirstenboshBotGard09292010C.JPG?width=300.
- Elegia_tectorum wikiPageID "37974244".
- Elegia_tectorum wikiPageRevisionID "591179724".
- Elegia_tectorum binomial "Elegia tectorum".
- Elegia_tectorum binomialAuthority "Moline & H.P.Linder".
- Elegia_tectorum familia Restionaceae.
- Elegia_tectorum genus "Elegia".
- Elegia_tectorum hasPhotoCollection Elegia_tectorum.
- Elegia_tectorum imageCaption "Elegia tectorum in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens".
- Elegia_tectorum name "Elegia tectorum".
- Elegia_tectorum ordo Poales.
- Elegia_tectorum regnum Plant.
- Elegia_tectorum species "E. tectorum".
- Elegia_tectorum unrankedClassis Monocotyledon.
- Elegia_tectorum unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Elegia_tectorum unrankedOrdo Commelinids.
- Elegia_tectorum subject Category:Restionaceae.
- Elegia_tectorum type Eukaryote.
- Elegia_tectorum type Plant.
- Elegia_tectorum type Species.
- Elegia_tectorum type Organism.
- Elegia_tectorum comment "Elegia tectorum, previously Chondropetalum tectorum or Restio tectorum, more commonly Cape thatching reed, or dakriet (in Afrikaans), is a member of the restio family, Restionaceae. It is a tufted perennial growing to between 1.5 and 2.25 m, with deciduous leaf sheaths. Flowers are less than 3 mm long. Petals are smooth or hairy in the upper half. E.".
- Elegia_tectorum label "Elegia tectorum".
- Elegia_tectorum sameAs m.0pb5p_q.
- Elegia_tectorum sameAs Q5358684.
- Elegia_tectorum sameAs Q5358684.
- Elegia_tectorum wasDerivedFrom Elegia_tectorum?oldid=591179724.
- Elegia_tectorum depiction Elegia_tectorum_KirstenboshBotGard09292010C.JPG.
- Elegia_tectorum isPrimaryTopicOf Elegia_tectorum.
- Elegia_tectorum name "Elegia tectorum".