We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Juncus brachycarpus Engelm.

*J. brachycarpus Engelm. Trans. St Louis Acad. 2, 1868, 467.

Tufted perennial, reddish-tinged. Stems to 80 cm high, distinctly septate internally just below inflorescence. Leaves terete or ± compressed with ± distinct transverse septa. Inflorescence 2-5 cm long with few stiff branches and 3-5- (6) hemispherical to globose many-flowered clusters to 8 mm diam.; leaf-like subtending bract much < inflorescence but each individual flower-cluster subtended by 1-2 bracts > flowers. Tepals 3.5-4 mm long, outer > inner, very narrow, stiff, acuminate. Stamens 3. Capsules immature in only N.Z. specimen.

N. North Auckland - "Cape Maria [Van Diemen], boggy hillside", G. T. S. Baylis, 8.12.1934 (CHR 18194); only collection. (N. America)

First record: ‡

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top