Details for: Luzula banksiana var. banksiana.
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Source: Kirschner, J. et al. 2002, Species Plantarum: Flora of the World Part 6-8. [IOPI preferred view]
Name: Luzula banksiana var. banksiana. E.Mey.
Rank: Varietas
Status: ACCEPTED
Taxonomy (this taxon is included in): Familia - Juncaceae
    Genus - Luzula DC.
        Subgenus - Luzula subgen. Luzula DC.
            Sectio - Luzula sect. Luzula
                Species - Luzula banksiana E.Mey.
                    
 
Description: Plants (3–) 8–15 (–30) cm tall; stem stout, c. 1.5 mm in diam. Basal leaves sparsely hairy, usually (2–) 8–15 (–25) cm long, (2–) 3–6 (–7) mm wide; cauline leaves usually 2, often long and exceeding stem. Lower bracts usually 2, to 5–6 cm long, 2–3 (–4) mm wide, conspicuously exceeding inflorescence. Inflorescence congested, many-flowered, of a single head of c. 2–7 echinate globular clusters, sometimes with 1–2 clusters on short peduncles. Tepals narrowly lanceolate, gradually tapering, long-acuminate, usually (2.3–) 2.6–4.0 mm long; midrib narrow, distinct, dark brown to castaneous; margins broad, usually silvery scarious. Anthers (0.4–) 0.5–0.8 (–1.0) mm long; filaments (0.4–) 0.6–1.0 mm long [anther:filament ratio 0.9–1.2 (–2.3)]; style 0.5–0.9 mm long; stigma 1.8–2.6 mm long. Capsule obovoid, subobtuse to subacuminate, straw-brown to pale brown (apex often castaneous); capsule segments (1.8–) 2.0–2.3 (–2.6) Χ 1.1–1.4 mm. Seeds broadly ovoid, 0.9–1.3 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide; appendage c. 0.2 mm long, fibrillate. 2n=12 [AL], fide H.Nordenskiφld, New Zealand J. Bot. 4: 187 (1966).
Geography: 51. NEW ZEALAND NORTH: Wellington, heads of Port Nicholson, 13 Nov 1928, H.H.Allan (CHR, K); Wellington, Kio Bay harbour, 6 Nov 1965, E.Edgar (AK, BRI, CANB, CHR, OTA, PERTH, PR); Wellington, W side of Evans Bay, L.B.Moore & H.Nordenskiφld S116 (CHR, UPS).
Note in illustration: Map: E.Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 4: fig. 1 (1966).
Notes: The original specimen depicted by F.G.P.Buchenau, 1906: fig. 53, was destroyed during the Second World War, or at least not located at W; a fragment of the specimen is deposited in Buchenau's herbarium at W, and represents the type.
SourceHigherTaxon from IOPI: Juncaceae
Taxon number in Juncaceae SP treatment : 82a.
TDWG Distribution Code: 51: NZN, NZS.
Distribution table:
Australasia New Zealand New Zealand North
New Zealand South