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Details for: Luzula novae-cambriae |
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Search restricted to Kirschner, J. et al. 2002, Species Plantarum: Flora of the World Part 6-8. Check for other Sources using this name
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Kirschner, J. et al. 2002, Species Plantarum: Flora of the World Part 6-8. [IOPI preferred view]
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| Name: |
Luzula novae-cambriae Gand. |
| Nomencl. ref. |
Bull. Soc. Bot. France vol. 46, 392. 1899. |
| Rank: |
Species |
| Status: |
ACCEPTED |
| Taxonomy (this taxon is included in): |
Familia - Juncaceae
Genus - Luzula DC.
Subgenus - Luzula subgen. Luzula DC.
Sectio - Luzula sect. Luzula
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Synonym(s):
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Luzula oldfieldii var. angustifolia H.Nordensk. |
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| Description: |
Perennials, 12–30 cm tall, densely caespitose, base often reddish; rhizome short; stolons absent. Basal leaves ±flat, ±soft, c. 8–14 cm long, 2–4 (–6) mm wide; cauline leaves 1–2, to c. 6 cm long; margins sparsely hairy, often ±swollen, smooth to sparsely papillose; apex obtuse. Lower bract 1.5–2.5 cm long, herbaceous, usually ±equalling inflorescence. Inflorescence ±ovoid, of c. 5–10-flowered clusters 0.6–0.8 mm in diam., sometimes all clusters subsessile; peduncles straight, later some drooping, smooth, to c. 2 cm long. Bracteoles ovate, entirely scarious or brownish at base, to c. 1.5 mm long. Tepals ±equal, broadly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 2.5–3.2 mm long, usually dark castaneous-brown; margins distinct, ±narrow, whitish-scarious. Stamens 6; anthers 0.7–1.3 mm long; filaments 0.4–0.5 mm long; style c. 0.6 mm long; stigmas c. 1.5–2.0 mm long. Capsule oblong-ovoid, subacute, ±equalling perianth, dark castaneous-brown, ±papillose; capsule segments 2.3–2.5 ×
c. 1.4 mm. Seeds dark brown, 1.1–1.2 mm long, c. 0.8 mm wide; appendage 0.2–0.3 mm long. 2n=12 [12AL], fide H.Nordenskiöld, Bot. Not. 122: 72–73 (1969). |
| Geography: |
Quite common in the mountains of S New South Wales; also in Victoria and Tasmania.
50: NSW, TAS, VIC. Alpine and subalpine herbfields, grassy slopes, and exposed rocky sites. Map 135., 50. NEW SOUTH WALES: Kosciusko District, above Lake Albina, 20 Jan 1951, L.A.S.Johnson
& E.F.Constable [19622] (K); Cascade Track, c. 2 km SE of Dead Horse Gap, Kosciusko Natl Park, K.L.Wilson 8667 & Frank (CANB, CHR, K, NSW, NY); below Seaman’s Hut, Kosciusko Natl Park, M.D.Tindale 4067 & D.J.Wimbush (NSW). VICTORIA: top of Mt Howitt, A.C.Beauglehole 40781
& E.A.Chesterfield (MEL, NSW); summit of Mt Wellington, D.E.Albrecht 2999 & N.G.Walsh (MEL). TASMANIA: summit of Frenchmans Cap, A.M.Buchanan 468 (HO); Cradle Mountain, L.A.S.Johnson s.n. (NSW72310). |
| Note in illustration: |
Illustrations: A.B.Costin et al., Kosciusko Alpine Fl. fig. 129 (1979); G.J.Harden (ed.), Fl. New South Wales 4: 292 (1993); N.G.Walsh & T.J.Entwisle (eds), Fl. Victoria 2: 237, fig. 50, d–e (1994). |
| Notes: |
Distinguished by the dark-flowered, subumbelloid inflorescence and shortly carunculate seeds. In N.S.W. and Victoria, plants of L. novae-cambriae usually have numerous, narrow, ±channelled leaves and bear thickly matted, very dark brown, persistent fibrous remains of old sheaths at the base. Tasmanian plants may have fewer, flat, wider leaves and fewer persistent sheath-fibres. |
| SourceHigherTaxon from IOPI: |
Juncaceae |
| Taxon number in Juncaceae SP treatment
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88. |
| Type: | T: New South Wales, Mt Kosciusko, J.H.Maiden s.n.; holo: LY, n.v.; iso: NSW65717 p.p., CHR152622 p.p., n.v. |
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