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Luzula spicata

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Name

Identification
Luzula spicata (L.) DC. [family JUNCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Luzula obtusata Steud. [family JUNCACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Luzula hispanica
  • Luzula pindica
  • Luzula abyssinica
  • Luzula spicata
  • Luzula obtusata
Common name
  • Spiked wood rush, Flora of North America Vol. 22

Flora

Entry for LUZULA spicata Hochst. var. simensis [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 spicata Hochst. var. simensis [family JUNCACEAE], in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. Exsicc. 1154. —Buchen. in Engl. Jahrb. xii. 128; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 157; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 137.
LUZULA abyssinica Parl. [family JUNCACEAE], Fl. Ital. ii. 310.
LUZULA macrotricha Steud. [family JUNCACEAE], Syn. Fl. Glum. ii. 294.
Information
Shortly stoloniferous. Basal leaves several, linear, 3–4 in. long, glabrous when mature. Stem slender, 1/2–1 ft. long, erect, bearing 2–3 erect reduced leaves. Inflorescence a small, oblong, erect, congested panicle; lower branch-bracts linear, densely ciliate at the base; flower-bracts ovate, acuminate, brown with stramineous tip and edges, shorter than the perianth. Perianth-segments dark brown, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1/12 in. long. Stamens 6, much shorter than the perianth. Capsule ovoid-trigonous, about as long as the perianth.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Demerki Mountains, Schimper, 1154; Begemeder; Mount Guna, 11,700 ft., Schimper, 1328.British East Africa Nile Land Mount Kenia, in the Bamboo zone, 5000–6000 ft., Gregory.
Notes
The type occurs on the mountains of the North Temperate zone in both hemispheres.

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