Name referring to the globular spikelets.
Plant tufted or rhizomatous. Stems simple below the inflorescence or with numerous finely branched sterile lateral branches having persistent sheaths. Male and female spikelets similar and many-flowered. Fruit a thin-walled capsule that is shed with its persistent perianth and still attached to its glume. [Restio Rottb. in part]
Formerly included in Restio which is now a genus restricted to Africa.
Division, occasionally by seed.
Some used locally for thatching. Occasionally used in floristry. In Australia the source material of a some peat deposits.
Baloskion has flower stalks that are fused to the subtending glume.
8 species from eastern Australia.
Briggs & Johnson (1998).
Source: (2005). Restionaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.