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Details for: Luzula capitata |
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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 capitata (Miq. ex Franch. & Sav.) Kom. |
| Nomencl. ref. |
Fl. Kamtschatka vol. 1, 288. 1927. |
| 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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| Basionym: |
Luzula campestris var. capitata Miq. ex Franch. & Sav. |
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Synonym(s):
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Luzula campestris var. capitata Miq. ex Franch. & Sav. |
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| Description: |
Perennial, c. 15–45 cm tall, ±densely ciliate, densely caespitose; rhizome short; stolons absent. Basal leaves numerous, usually 7–14 cm long, 2.0–3.5 mm wide; cauline leaves 2–3, usually 3–6.5 cm long and 2–3 mm wide; all leaves and lower bract with obtuse tip, and with sparsely papillose-subserrulate margins. Inflorescence a densely congested many-flowered head composed of inconspicuous clusters, 1–2 × up to 1.5 cm. Bracts (1–) 2 (–3), usually
1–3 (–5) cm long, 1.0–1.5 (–3.0) mm wide; lower bract herbaceous, ±patent to erecto-patent. Bracteoles 1.5–2.5 mm long, ±densely fimbriate-ciliate, usually shorter than perianth. Tepals equal, entire (inner often with shallowly denticulate apex), 3.0–3.5 mm long, pale castaneous brown with whitish margins, lanceolate, ±acuminate. Stamens 6; anthers (0.9–) 1.2–1.8 mm long; filaments 0.5–0.7 mm long; style 0.7–0.9 mm long; stigmas 1.5–2.0 mm long. Capsule ±equalling perianth, oblong-ovoid, ±obtuse, not mucronate, dark brown, usually shining; capsule segments 2.4–2.8 × 1.5–1.8 mm. Seeds 1.1–1.2 mm long, 0.8–1.0 mm wide; appendage 0.5–0.6 (–0.7) mm long. 2n=12, H.Nordenskiöld, Hereditas 42: 10–11 (1956). |
| Geography: |
From Kamchatka and the Kuriles to Japan and Korea. Oligotrophic grasslands from lowlands to lower mountains. Map 106., 31: RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Sakhalin, ‘ubique’, U.Faurie 853 (BM); Krasnogorsk, A.I.Tolmachev (VLA). 38: JAPAN: Hokkaido, Hamanaka, M.Furuse 8771 (K); Fukuoka, Hakozaki, Kotobuki & Ichikawa 187 (LD); Honshu, Jimmuji in Sagami, J.Ohwi & Ito 257 (BM, UPS); Honshu, Tokyo, Fuchu, Kuruma-gaeshi, 5 May 1963, Mizushima (S). KOREA: Quelpaert, Houguo, Taquet 1999 (K); Korea, Fusan, U.Faurie 5 (BM);
N Korea, Pyongyang, Sádlo & Kolbek 4/90 (PRA); N Korea, Hvanhe-Pukdo, 6 Jun 1959, N.Kaden (MW). |
| Note in illustration: |
Illustrations: Y.Satake, in T.Nakai & M.Honda, Nov. Fl. Jap. 1: 34, fig. 13 (1938); Anonymous, Fl. Cor. 7: 459, fig. 386 (1976). |
| Notes: |
Reported from China but not confirmed during this study. |
| SourceHigherTaxon from IOPI: |
Juncaceae |
| Taxon number in Juncaceae SP treatment
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68. |
| TDWG Distribution Code: |
31: KAM, KUR, MAG, SAK. 38: JAP, KOR. |
| Type: | T: Japan, P.F.Siebold 591; syn: W; Yokohama, Morrow; syn: n.v.; Hakodate, C.Wright; syn: n.v.; Nagasaki, T.Oldham; syn: K, P. |
| Distribution table: |
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Eastern Asia |
Japan |
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Korea |
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Russian Far East |
Kamchatka |
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Kuril Is. |
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Magadan |
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Sakhalin |
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