''Spatalla salsoloides'', the kink-style spoon, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus ''
Spatalla
''Spatalla'' is a genus containing 20 species of flowering plants, commonly known as "spoons", in the family (biology), family Proteaceae. The genus is endemism, endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa where it is associated with fyn ...
'' and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the
Western Cape
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of
South Africa
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, where it occurs in the Du Toitskloofberge's peak and Goudini Sneeukop.
The shrub is bushy and grows to 1.0 m in height and diameter and flowers from October to December. The plant dies after a fire but the seeds survive. The plant is bisexual and pollination takes place through the action of insects. Two months after the plant has flowered, the ripe seeds fall to the ground where they are spread by ants. The plant grows in ratty southern slope at elevations of 1500 – 1850 m.
References
Sources
REDLIST SanbiProtea Atlas, bl. 88Plants of the World Online
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salsoloides
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
Fynbos
Plants described in 1810
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)