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Luzula campestris

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Luzula campestris Degener [family JUNCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Juncus campestris
  • Luzula multiflora
  • Luzula nivalis
  • Luzula campestris
  • Luzula africana
  • Luzula alpina
  • Luzula crinita
  • Luzula hyperborea
  • Luzula chabertii
  • Luzula capitata

Flora

Entry for LUZULA campestris Buchen. var. Mannii [family JUNCACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 91, (1902) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
LUZULA campestris Buchen. var. Mannii [family JUNCACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xii. 159. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 157.
Information
Leaves many in a basal rosette, linear, 4–12 in. long, 1/4 in. broad, densely ciliated towards the base. Stem 1/2–1 ft. long, erect, bearing 1–2 reduced leaves. Panicle subumbellate, composed of several peduncled clusters or congested by the suppression of the peduncles; branch-bracts linear-subulate, 1–3 in. long, densely ciliate towards the base; flower-bracts ovate, acuminate, scariose, pale green, as long as or shorter than the flowers. Perianth-segments lanceolate, acuminate, dark brown, 1/8 in. long. Stamens 6, rather shorter than the perianth. Capsule ovoid-trigonous, rather shorter than the perianth.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 10,000–13,500 ft., Mann, 2108! Johnston!Fernando Po Upper Guinea summit of Clarence Peak, 8000 ft., Mann, 658! 1467!
Notes
Nearly allied to the European L. multiflora, Lej. The species is almost cosmopolitan, concentrated in the North Temperate zone.

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