| Luzula parviflora (Ehrh.) Desv. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luzula melanocarpa (Michx.) Desv., Luzula parviflora var. melanocarpa (Michx.) Buchenau, Juncus parviflorus Ehrh., Luzula labradorica Steud., Juncus melanocarpus Michx., Juncoides parviflorum Cov. | ||
| Description | Yellowish-green with short runners; culm with 3-5 large stem leaves; basal leaves flat, 6-12 mm broad, nearly glabrous, abruptly pointed; cyme with long, slender, arching rays, mixed with shorter rays; perianth leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, castaneous or brownish, scarious-margined; mature capsule as long as perianth or slightly longer, shiny, chestnut-brown. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places in forest and tundra. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Some specimens belong to var. melanocarpa (Michx.) Buchenau (Juncus mela- nocarpus Michx.), with lax cyme, pale perianth, and very dark capsule. Circum- polar map indicates range of L. parviflora, in broad sense. |
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.