Willdenowia glomerata

Willdenowia glomerata, commonly the green-nut sunreed and botanically previously as W. lucaeana, is a tufted perennial growing erect, branched culms that are terete (cylindrical) to heights from 30 cm to 1,5 m.

The tussock becomes broad, growing from a short rhizome, many of its stems angled out as in the photo. The sheaths persist on the stems, their pointed tips membranous and decaying with age.

The species distribution is mostly in the Western Cape, slightly into the Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape.

The habitat is dry, stony fynbos slopes at elevations from 50 m to 2000 m. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century. The entire genus is endemic to the fynbos (Dorrat-Haaksma and Linder, 2012; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; Wikipedia; http://redlist.sanbi.org).