Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
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Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau in Buchenau, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 12: 257 (1890)
Nomenclature
Buchenau
Buchenau
1890
257
ICN
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
var.
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis
Classification
Descriptions
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
Clumps densely or loosely tufted, dark-coloured. Rhizome 5–8 mm. diam., horizontal, not much branched. Flowering stems 30–100–(120) cm. × 1.5–3 mm., rather distant along the rhizome, rigid, terete, light to dark yellow-brown, pith continuous; basal bracts stiff, acute, red-brown, upper ones larger, broad and mucronate. Lvs 1–2, terete, bright green, sheathing at the base, similar to the stems but shorter. Infl. apparently lateral, open, irregularly-branched, branchlets ∞, rigid, almost equalling the pungent subtending bract. Fls c. 3 mm. long, clustered at the tips of the branchlets; tepals very stiff, red-brown with green to light brown midrib. Stamens us. 3 perfect and 3 aborted, but occ. 1 or more of the us. aborted inner ring are complete; anthers twice as long as filaments. Capsule slightly > tepals, ovoid, shining, mucronate, dark brown, almost black.
Taxonomic concepts
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
Juncus maritimus var. australiensis Buchenau
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