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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Luzula nivalis
|accepted_authority=(Laestadius) Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg.
|place=2: 111.  1825
|year=1825
}}
|common_names=Arctic wood rush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Luzula campestris var. nivalis
|authority=Laestadius,
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl.
|publication_place=1822: 334. 1822
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Luzula arctica
|authority=Blytt
|rank=species
}} 
|hierarchy=Juncaceae;Luzula;Luzula subg. Luzula;Luzula nivalis
|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 nivalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 263
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely cespitose, 5-20 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths brown to straw-colored; basal leaves to 10 cm × 4 mm; cauline leaves usually 2, reduced. <b>Inflorescences</b>: glomerules 1-3, sessile; proximal inflorescence bract inconspicuous, brown, much shorter to ± equaling inflorescence, apex often clear, dentate; bracts deep brown, margins dentate; bracteoles deep brown, margins dentate. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals deep brown with narrow clear margins and apex, 1.7-2.1 mm; anthers ± equaling filament length. <b>Capsules</b> dark reddish to blackish, shining, spheric, 1.8-2.1 mm, usually exceeding tepals. <b>Seeds</b> translucent, clear brown, broadly elliptic, with few entangled hairs, 1-1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet, stony places on slopes and in dwarf shrub heaths in alpine and arctic tundra; circumpolar.
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Eurasia.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Luzula nivalis
|authority=(Laestadius) Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Luzula arctica
|basionyms=Luzula campestris var. nivalis
|family=Juncaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet, stony places on slopes and in dwarf shrub heaths in alpine and arctic tundra; circumpolar.
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg.
|publication year=1825
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_490.xml
|genus=Luzula
|subgenus=Luzula subg. Luzula
|species=Luzula nivalis
}}<!--

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