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Botanical details
- Family
- Restionaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Elegia
- Genus description
Elegia is a genus of grass-like plants endemic to Cape Province in South Africa. Some species are grown as ornamentals with their decorative golden to dark brown flower spikes. Flowers can be white to greenish yellow and are fairly small and insignificant.
- Name status
Correct
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