Biology:Luzula arcuata

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Short description: Species of flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae

Luzula arcuata
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Juncaceae
Genus: Luzula
Species:
L. arcuata
Binomial name
Luzula arcuata

Luzula arcuata is a species of flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae with the modern common name curved wood-rush (formerly curved mountain hair-rush).[1] The plant is native to mountains of northern Europe, north-western and north-eastern Asia and north-western North America.[2]

Description

Luzula arcuata is a short (up to 10 cm), tufted, shortly rhizomatous, grass-like perennial herb. Leaves channelled, hairy. The longer flower stalks droop, curving downwards.[3]:941

Distribution

It has a very local distribution, confined to open ground and mountain summit plateaux above 1,250 metres that are sufficiently exposed to be kept snow-free.[2][3] Its native distribution includes Iceland, Svalbard, northern Norway and Scottish mountains and mountains of Western North America and the Kamchatka peninsula.[citation needed]

References

  1. James Edward Smith & James Sowerby, English Botany. New Edition, Vol. 3, 1836. Page 68, Tab 518* Supplement Index: "Tab. 2718 - "Luzula campestris" var". Plate erroneously engraved 2719.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora, Luzula arcuata, Curved wood-rush". Biological Records Centre and Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/luzula-arcuata. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521707725. 

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