View source for Luzula multiflora

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Luzula multiflora
|accepted_authority=(Ehrhart) Lejeune
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flore des Environs de Spa
|place=1: 169. 1811
|year=1811
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Juncus multiflorus
|authority=(Ehrhart) Ehrhart
|rank=species
|publication_title=Calam. Gram. Tripet. Linn., no.
|publication_place=127. 1794,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Juncus campestris var. multiflorus
|authority=Ehrhart
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Juncaceae;Luzula;Luzula subg. Luzula;Luzula multiflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Juncaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Luzula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Luzula subg. Luzula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Luzula multiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely to loosely cespitose, 10–40 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal leaves 3.5–12 cm × 2–6 mm; cauline leaves equaling or exceeding inflorescences. <b>Inflorescences</b>: glomerules 3–16 (each with 8–16 flowers), 1–2 nearly sessile with others on evident peduncles, mostly cylindric; secondary branches sometimes present, usually straight, erect; proximal inflorescence bract barely as long as to exceeding inflorescence. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals pale brown to chestnut brown to blackish with clear margins, 2–4 mm; outer and inner whorl ± equal, or outer whorl slightly longer (outer whorl pointed, inner whorl pointed or truncate-mucronate); anthers not more than 2 times filament length; stigmas 0.8–1.5 mm; styles not persistent in fruit. <b>Capsules</b> pale to brown to black, globose, shorter than to ± equaling tepals. <b>Seeds</b> 1.1–1.7 mm; caruncles 0.2–0.6 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Many names have been applied to members of this variable complex throughout the range of this flora. No monograph is yet available to enable a satisfactory treatment.</p><!--
--><p>Subspecies 6 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=jarolimova1995b
|text=Jarolimova, V. and J. Kirschner. 1995. Tetraploids in Luzula multiflora (Juncaceae) in Ireland. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 30: 389--396.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=kirschner1990b
|text=Kirschner, J. 1990. Luzula multiflora and allied species (Juncaceae): A nomenclatural study. Taxon 39: 106--114.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of outer and inner whorls not similar, outer whorl pointed, inner whorl truncate-mucronate; dark brown to chestnut to blackish
|[[Luzula multiflora subsp. frigida|Luzula multiflora subsp. frigida]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of outer and inner whorls similar, pointed, straw-colored to chestnut.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Tepals straw-colored to brown; cauline leaves not or only barely overlapping; proximal inflorescence bract equal to or barely exceeding inflorescence
|[[Luzula multiflora subsp. multiflora|Luzula multiflora subsp. multiflora]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Tepals chestnut; cauline leaves greatly overlapping; proximal inflorescence bract well exceeding inflorescence
|[[Luzula multiflora subsp. kobayasii|Luzula multiflora subsp. kobayasii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Luzula multiflora
|authority=(Ehrhart) Lejeune
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Juncus campestris var. multiflorus
|basionyms=Juncus multiflorus
|family=Juncaceae
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|reference=jarolimova1995b;kirschner1990b
|publication title=Flore des Environs de Spa
|publication year=1811
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_178.xml
|genus=Luzula
|subgenus=Luzula subg. Luzula
|species=Luzula multiflora
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