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Luzula africana

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Name

Identification
Luzula africana Steud. [family JUNCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Luzula africana Steud. [family JUNCACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Luzula campestris
  • Luzula africana
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Flora

Entry for LUZULA africana Drège [family JUNCACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 16, (1900) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
LUZULA africana Drège [family JUNCACEAE], in Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 294;—Buchen. in Abhand. Naturw. Ver. Brem. iv. 414, t. 5 (“4”), ex parte; Engl. Jahrb. xii. 150.
Information
perennial, densely tufted; leaves linear, flat, moderately firm, inconspicuously ciliated, the lower 4–8 in. long; stem slender, erect, 1–1 1/2 in. long, bearing several reduced leaves; inflorescence congested into a small globose or ovoid terminal head; primary bracts linear-convolute; perianth 1/6 in. long; segments ovate-acuminate, brown, with a greenish edge, outer rather longer than the inner; capsule sub-globose; seeds 1/16 in. long, rounded on the back, flattened on the inner side. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Basutoland; Mont aux Sources, 9500 ft., Flanagan, 2008!COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, in grassy places and swamps, Drège, 3963!

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