Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 305-306 (1925)
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Luzula traversii

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Cheeseman
Buchenau
(Buchenau) Cheeseman
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
1925
305-306
ICN
Luzula racemosa var. traversii Buchenau
species
Luzula traversii

Click to collapse Classification Info

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Luzula
traversii

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Edgar, E. 1966: Luzula in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 4: 159–184.

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Leaves rather stiff, tapering very gradually to the acicular tip, margins usually slightly incurved, with long white hairs. Flowering stems (2)-10- 25-(40) cm long. Inflorescence usually pendulous with subsessile clusters of flowers congested into a pyramidal head. Flowers 1-7-2-5-(3) mm long; tepals chestnut to dark brown with broad or narrow silver membranous margins. Capsules more or less equal to tepals in length, chestnut to dark brown, almost black.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Grass-like, (2) -10-25- (40) cm high. Leaves ± stiff, with acicular tip, 1-5 mm wide. Inflorescence a ± drooping pyramidal head. Flowers usually 1.5-2.5 mm long. Stamens 3, (6 in ).
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman

Grass-like, tufted. Lvs rather stiff, tapering very gradually to the acicular tip, margins us. slightly incurved, with long white hairs. Flowering stems (2)–10–25–(40) cm. long, > lvs, elongating when fr. matures. Infl. us. pend. with subsessile clusters of fls congested into a pyramidal head. Fls 1.5–2.5–(3) mm. long; tepals chestnut to dark brown with broad or narrow, silver, membr. margins. Capsules ± = tepals, chestnut to dark brown, almost black.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Luzula racemosa var. traversii Buchenau
Luzula racemosa var. traversii Buchenau
Buchenau, F. (1890)
Luzula racemosa var. traversii Buchenau
Luzula racemosa var. traversii Buchenau
Edgar, E. (1966)
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Edgar, E. (1966)
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)

Click to collapse Collections Info

Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
1 Link to an external page
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
42 Link to an external page
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
9 Link to an external page
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
6 Link to an external page
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Otago Land District
19 Link to an external page
Luzula traversii (Buchenau) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Southland Land District
3 Link to an external page

Click to collapse Metadata Info

c2dd382f-e59d-49b6-a395-0cf52d7d0754
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 November 2006
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top