Luzula acuminata |
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hairy wood rush |
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Rhizomes | similar to stolons. |
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Culms | loosely cespitose, 10–40 cm × width3–5 mm. |
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Stolons | to 6 cm, scale leaves present. |
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Leaves | sheaths reddish, throat pilose; blade sparsely pubescent; basal leaves 32 cm × 12 mm; cauline leaves 2–4, 2–4 cm × 2–5 mm. |
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Inflorescences | cymose, not rarely branching or often branching to 6 cm; proximal inflorescence bract 1/2–2/3 inflorescence length; bracts straw-colored, apex truncate, lacerate, glabrous or pubescent; bracteoles lance-ovate, 1/3–1/2 tepal length; pedicels single or paired, erect to spreading, 1–4 cm. |
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Flowers | tepals pale to dark brown, 3–4.5 mm, margins entire, clear; anthers 2 times filament length; stigmas ± equaling style length. |
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Capsules | green to straw-colored, exceeding tepals; beak a mucro; valves widely spreading upon splitting. |
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Seeds | reddish to brown, 1–1.5 mm; caruncle curved, ± equaling length of seed body. |
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2n | = 48. |
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Luzula acuminata |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 22, p. 256. | ||||
Parent taxa | Juncaceae > Luzula > subg. Pterodes | ||||
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Name authority | Rafinesque: Autikon Botanikon 3: 193. (1840) | ||||
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