Platycaulos

Platycaulos is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1984.^[1][2] The genus is native to eastern and southern Africa including Madagascar.^[3]

Platycaulos
Platycaulos callistachyus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Restionaceae
Genus:	Platycaulos H.P.Linder
Type species
Platycaulos compressus (Rottb.) H.P.Linder[1]

Species

12 species are accepted.^[3]

• Platycaulos acutus Esterh. – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos anceps (Mast.) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos callistachyus (Kunth) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos cascadensis (Pillans) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos compressus (Rottb.) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos depauperatus (Kunth) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos galpinii (Pillans) H.P.Linder & C.R.Hardy – Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal
• Platycaulos mahonii (N.E.Br.) H.P.Linder & C.R.Hardy – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar
• Platycaulos major (Mast.) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces
• Platycaulos mlanjiensis (H.P.Linder) H.P.Linder & C.R.Hardy – Malawi
• Platycaulos quartziticola (H.P.Linder) H.P.Linder & C.R.Hardy – Zimbabwe, Mozambique
• Platycaulos subcompressus (Pillans) H.P.Linder – Cape Provinces