Juncaceae
Common names: Rush Family
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22. Treatment on page 211.
Herbs, perennial, occasionally annual, usually rhizomatous, orsometimes cespitose. Culms round or flat. Leaves mostly basal; sheath margins fused or overlapping, often with 2 earlike extensions (auricles) at blade junction; blade flat or round, glabrous or margins hairy. Inflorescences of headlike clusters or single flowers variously arranged; bracts subtending inflorescence 1 or more2, mostly leaflike; bracts subtending inflorescence branches 1–2, reduced; bracteoles subtending solitary flower 0–2, translucent, reduced. Flowers usually bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals and petals similar, persistent, green to brown or purplish black; stamens usually 3 or 6; anthers persistent, linear; pistils 1; ovaries superior, locules 1 or 3, placentas 1 and basal or 3 and axile or parietal; stigmas generally longer than styles. Fruits capsules, loculicidal. Seeds 3–many, often with white appendages on 1 or both ends.
Distribution
Arctic and temperate regions, tropical mountains.
Discussion
Genera 9, species ca. 350 (2 genera, 1108 species in the flora).
References
Facts about "Juncaceae"
Author | Ralph E. Brooks + and Steven E. Clemants + |
Authority | A. L. Jussieu + |
Common name | Rush Family + |
Distribution | Arctic and temperate regions + and tropical mountains. + |
Illustrator | Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey + |
Reference | buchenau1890a + and buchenau1906a + |
Source xml | https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse grained fna xml/V22/V22 24.xml + |
Taxon family | Juncaceae + |
Taxon name | Juncaceae + |
Taxon rank | family + |
Volume | Volume 22 + |