| Juncus leschenaultii Gay | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus prismatocarpus var. leschenaultii (Gay) Buchenau. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; stem with 1-3 leaves; leaves flat, thin, indistinctly septate; inflores- cence with few, 3-8-flowered stellate heads; perianth segments linear-lanceolate, subulate, nearly equal; stamens 3; anthers about half as long as filaments; capsule triangular-conical, as long as perianth, or slightly longer. | ||
| Ecology | Exclusively at hot springs. Because the hot springs of Alaska are very little known botanically, this plant might also occur there. Described from Nilgiri Hills, India. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.