Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Juncaceae Juss.
Genus
Luzula DC.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Luzula crinita Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 84, t. 48 (1844)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Luzula campestris var. crinita (Hook.f.) Buchenau, Österr. Bot. Z. 5: 215-216 (1898)
 Description

Strict, grass-like, dark green tufts, (4)–8–25–(40) cm high. Leaves rigid, margins usually incurved. Flowers 2–2.5 mm long; tepals dark brown almost black with red-brown margins. Stamens 6.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Luzula crinita Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total2
 Bibliography
Buchenau, F. 1890: Monographia Juncacearum. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 12: 1–495.
Buchenau, F. 1898: Luzula campestris und Verwandte Arten. Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 5
Edgar, E. 1966: Luzula in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 4: 159–184.
Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.