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|accepted_name=Luzula
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in J. Lamarck and A. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck and A. P. de Candolle,Fl. France, ed. 3
|place=1: 198; 3: 158. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Wood rush
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Juncoides
|authority=Adanson
}}
|hierarchy=Juncaceae;Luzula
|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>
|etymology=possibly from Italian lucciola, to shine, sparkle, or Latin gramen luzulae or luxulae, diminutive of lux, light, because hairs of several species have shiny appearance when covered with dew
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=page 256
|treatment_page=page 255
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, usually cespitose, often with short, mostly vertical to running rhizomes and/or (less commonly) stolons. <b>Culms</b> round. <b>Cataphylls</b> absent. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths closed, without auricles at throat (junction with blade), usually pilose; blade flat or channeled, never septate, margins with long, soft, multicellular hairs, apex often thickened (callous), veins commonly indistinct. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; flowers inserted individually or in dense clusters (glomerules) variously arranged; bracts subtending inflorescence (proximal inflorescence bracts) 2, mostly leaflike; bracts subtending inflorescence branches 1–2, reduced; bracteoles subtending flowers 2–3. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals 6, in 2 whorls; stamens 6. <b>Capsules</b> 1-locular, generally globose; beak often formed by persistent style base. <b>Seeds</b> 3, globose to ovoid, base often with tuft of fibrous hairs (vestige of funiculus); nutritive appendage from outer seed coat (caruncle) often present, white, barely visible to ± equaling seed body. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=Temperate and arctic regions worldwide;tropical mountains.
|discussion=<p>The leaves of Luzula are primarily basal; cauline leaves are usually reduced.</p><!--
--><p>Luzula species have diffuse centromeres and small chromosomes. That has resulted in much confusion in interpretation and reporting of chromosome counts. No attempt has been made to include reported counts that could not reasonably be verified by the author.</p><!--
--><p>Excluded species: Luzula sudetica (Willdenow) de Candolle. Although reports of this European species appear frequently in the North American literature, I have seen no specimens that confirm its presence. No chromosome counts are published for North American material. Since this species has a distinct cytotype, 2n = 48 (H. Nordenskiöld 1956), it should not be difficult to verify on this basis.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 108 (23 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers in dense clusters (glomerules); inflorescences spikelike or umbellate; seeds with caruncle conspicuous to barely visible
|[[Luzula subg. Luzula|Luzula subg. Luzula]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers solitary or in small clusters of 2–4; inflorescences mostly unbranched or dichasial; seeds with caruncle conspicuous to absent.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Flowers solitary; inflorescences corymbose, rarely branching; seeds with caruncle conspicuous
|[[Luzula subg. Pterodes|Luzula subg. Pterodes]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Flowers mostly in pairs, rarely in clusters of 3–4, or solitary; inflorescences paniculate or dichasial; seeds with caruncle inconspicuous or absent
|[[Luzula subg. Anthelaea|Luzula subg. Anthelaea]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Luzula
|author=Janice Coffey Swab
|authority=de Candolle in J. Lamarck and A. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Juncoides
|basionyms=
|family=Juncaceae
|distribution=Temperate and arctic regions worldwide;tropical mountains.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Lamarck and A. P. de Candolle,Fl. France, ed. 3
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_239.xml
|genus=Luzula
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