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|accepted_name=Juncaceae
|accepted_authority=A. L. Jussieu
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|common_names=Rush Family
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|hierarchy=Juncaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Juncaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=page 211
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, occasionally annual, usually rhizomatous, orsometimes cespitose. <b>Culms</b> round or flat. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; sheath margins fused or overlapping, often with 2 earlike extensions (auricles) at blade junction; blade flat or round, glabrous or margins hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 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. <b>Flowers</b> 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. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 3–many, often with white appendages on 1 or both ends.</span><!--

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|distribution=Arctic and temperate regions;tropical mountains.
|discussion=<p>Genera 9, species ca. 350 (2 genera, 1108 species in the flora).</p>
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|id=buchenau1890a
|text=Buchenau, F. 1890. Monographia Juncacearum. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 12: 1--495, 622--623, plates 1--3.
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|id=buchenau1906a
|text=Buchenau, F. 1906. Juncaceae. In: H. G. A. Engler, ed. 1900--1953. Das Pflanzenreich.... 107 vols. Berlin. Vol. 25[IV, 26], pp. 1--284.
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|1
|Leaves glabrous, sheaths open; fruits 1- or 3-chambered; seeds many
|[[Juncus|Juncus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves generally with hairy margins; fruits 1-chambered; seeds 3
|[[Luzula|Luzula]]
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name=Juncaceae
|author=Ralph E. Brooks;Steven E. Clemants
|authority=A. L. Jussieu
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|family=Juncaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Arctic and temperate regions;tropical mountains.
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