| Juncus bufonius L. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus ranarius Perr. & Song., Juncus nastanthus Krecz. & Gontsch. | ||
| Description | Annual; light green, in age brownish; stems simple or branching from the base, erect or decumbent; cymes open, dichotomously branched; flowers remote, scattered among branches; perianth leaves green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, scarious- margined, subulate-tipped, the inner somewhat shorter and broader; capsule chest- nut-brown, shorter than perianth leaves. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. ranarius (Perr. & Song.) Hayek (]. ranarius Perr. & Song.) has inner peri- anth leaves obtuse, about as long as capsule; in several localities within area of interest, it occurs with the type variety. |
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.