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Juncaceae
Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family. It consists of 8 genera and about 464 known species of slow-growing, rhizomatous, herbaceous monocotyledonous plants that may superficially resemble grasses and sedges. They often grow on infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions. The best-known and largest genus is ''Juncus''. Most of the ''Juncus'' species grow exclusively in wetland habitats. A few rushes, such as ''Juncus bufonius'' are annuals, but most are perennials. Description The leaves are evergreen and well-developed in a basal aggregation on an erect stem. They are alternate and tristichous (i.e., with three rows of leaves up the stem, each row of leaves arising one-third of the way around the stem from the previous leaf). Only in the genus '' Distichia'' are the leaves distichous. The rushes of the genus ''Juncus'' have flat, hairless leaves or cylindrical leaves. The leaves of the wood-rushes of the genus ''Luzula' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juncus Effusus
''Juncus effusus'', with the common names common rush or soft rush, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant species in the rush family Juncaceae. In North America, the common name soft rush also refers to ''Juncus interior''. Distribution ''Juncus effusus'' is nearly cosmopolitan, considered native in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. It has naturalized in Australia, Madagascar, and various oceanic islands. It is found growing in wet areas, such as wetlands, riparian areas, and marshes. In the United Kingdom it is found in purple moor-grass and rush pastures and fen-meadow plant associations. Description ''Juncus effusus'' grows in large clumps about tall at the water's edge along streams and ditches, but can be invasive anywhere with moist soil. It is commonly found growing in humus-rich areas like marshes, ditches, fens, and beaver dams. The stems are smooth cylinders with light pith filling. The yellowish inflorescence appears to emerge fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juncus
''Juncus'' is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes. It is the largest genus in the family Juncaceae, containing around 300 species. Description Rushes of the genus ''Juncus'' are herbaceous plants that superficially resemble grasses or sedges. They have historically received little attention from botanists; in his 1819 monograph, James Ebenezer Bicheno described the genus as "obscure and uninviting". The form of the flower differentiates rushes from grasses or sedges. The flowers of ''Juncus'' comprise five whorls of floral parts: three sepals, three petals (or, taken together, six tepals), two to six stamens (in two whorls) and a stigma with three lobes. The stems are round in cross-section, unlike those of sedges, which are typically somewhat triangular in cross-section. In ''Juncus'' section ''Juncotypus'' (formerly called ''Juncus'' subg. ''Genuini''), which contains some of the most widespread and familiar species, the leaves are reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostkovia
''Rostkovia'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1809. The genus is native to Ecuador, southern South America, New Zealand, and various antarctic and subantarctic islands. ; Species * ''Rostkovia magellanica'' (Lam.) Hook.f. - South Island of New Zealand, Antipodes Islands, Ecuador,Jørgensen, P. M. & C. Ulloa Ulloa. 1994. Seed plants of the high Andes of Ecuador–A checklist. AAU Reports 34: 1–443 southern Chile, southern Argentina, Falkland Islands, South Georgia Islands * '' Rostkovia tristanensis'' Christoph. - Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately from Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helen ... ; Formerly included moved to other genera: '' Marsippospermum Patosia'' * ''Rostkovia brevifolia'' Phil. - '' Patosia clandestina'' (Phil.) Buchenau * ''Rostkovia cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreojuncus
''Oreojuncus'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the rush family Juncaceae, found in the eastern United States, eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, most of Europe, northern Russia, western Siberia and the Altai. Their chromosome number is 2n=30 (x=15), whereas ''Juncus'', from which they were split, has x=20. Species Currently accepted species include: *''Oreojuncus monanthos'' (Jacq.) Záv.Drábk. & Kirschner *''Oreojuncus trifidus ''Oreojuncus trifidus'' is a species of rush known by the common names highland rush and three-leaved rush. It is native to the Northern Hemisphere, where it is an arctic/montane species with an amphi-atlantic distribution. Description ''Oreojun ...'' (L.) Záv.Drábk. & Kirschner References Poales genera Juncaceae {{Poales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patosia
''Patosia'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1890. The genus contains only one known species, ''Patosia clandestina'', native to southern South America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...).Kirschner, J. & al. (2002). Juncaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 6-8: 1-237, 1-336,1-192. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. References Juncaceae Flora of South America Monotypic Poales genera {{poales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distichia (genus)
''Distichia'' is a genus of plants in the family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1843. The genus is native to South America.Balslev, H. & Zuluaga, A. (2009). Juncaceae. Flora de Colombia 26: 1-80. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. ; species * ''Distichia acicularis'' Balslev & Laegaard - Ecuador * ''Distichia filamentosa'' Buchenau - Peru, Bolivia, N Chile * ''Distichia muscoides ''Distichia muscoides'' is a species of plant in the rush family Juncaceae. It is native to the Andes of South America where it grows in upland wetland areas known as bofedales. Description ''D. muscoides'' is a cushion plant, forming sheets or ...'' Nees & Meyen - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Argentina References {{Taxonbar, from=Q292883 Juncaceae Poales genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distichia (plant)
''Distichia'' is a genus of plants in the family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1843. The genus is native to South America.Balslev, H. & Zuluaga, A. (2009). Juncaceae. Flora de Colombia 26: 1-80. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. ; species * ''Distichia acicularis'' Balslev & Laegaard - Ecuador * ''Distichia filamentosa'' Buchenau - Peru, Bolivia, N Chile * ''Distichia muscoides ''Distichia muscoides'' is a species of plant in the rush family Juncaceae. It is native to the Andes of South America where it grows in upland wetland areas known as bofedales. Description ''D. muscoides'' is a cushion plant, forming sheets or ...'' Nees & Meyen - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Argentina References {{Taxonbar, from=Q292883 Juncaceae Poales genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luzula
''Luzula'' is a genus of flowering plants in the rush family Juncaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring throughout the world, especially in temperate regions, the Arctic, and higher elevation areas in the tropics. Plants of the genus are known commonly as wood-rush, wood rush, or woodrush.''Luzula''. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Possible origins of the genus name include the Italian ''lucciola'' ("to shine, sparkle") or the ''luzulae'' or ''luxulae'', from ''lux'' ("light"), inspired by the way the plants sparkle when wet with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxychloe
''Oxychloe'' is a genus of plants in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1860. The genus is native to the Andes of South America.Kirschner, J. & al. (2002). Juncaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 6-8: 1-237, 1-336,1-192. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. ; species * ''Oxychloe andina'' Phil. - Bolivia, Peru, NW Argentina, N Chile * ''Oxychloe bisexualis'' Kuntze - W Argentina, N Chile * ''Oxychloe castellanosii'' Barros - San Juan + La Rioja Provinces of Argentina * ''Oxychloe haumaniana'' (Barros) Barros - San Juan Province of Argentina * ''Oxychloe mendocina'' Barros - Mendoza Province of Argentina ; formerly included moved to ''Patosia ''Patosia'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1890. The genus contains only one known species, ''Patosia clandestina'', native to southern South America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia , image_flag ...'' * ''Oxychloe brevifolia'' (Phil.) Buchenau - '' Patosia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, ( Lilianae ''sensu'' Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. They constitute one of the major groups into which the flowering plants have traditionally been divided; the rest of the flowering plants have two cotyledons and are classified as dicotyledons, or dicots. Monocotyledons have almost always been recognized as a group, but with various taxonomic ranks and under several different names. The APG III system of 2009 recognises a clade called "monocots" but does not assign it to a taxonomic rank. The monocotyledons include about 60,000 species, about a quarter of all angiosperms. The largest family in this group (and in the flowering plants as a whole) by number of species are the orchids (family Orchidaceae), with more than 20,000 species. About half as many species belong to the true grasses ( Poaceae), which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsippospermum
''Marsippospermum'' is a genus of plant in family Juncaceae described as a genus in 1809. The genus is native to New Zealand, southern South America, and Falkland Islands.Kirschner, J. & al. (2002). Juncaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 6-8: 1-237, 1-336,1-192. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. ; Species * '' Marsippospermum gracile'' (Hook.f.) Buchenau - New Zealand (South Island + Antipodean Islands) * '' Marsippospermum grandiflorum'' (L.f.) Hook. - central + southern Chile, southern Argentina, Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubou ... * '' Marsippospermum philippii'' (Buchenau) Hauman - southern Chile, southern Argentina * '' Marsippospermum reichei'' Buchenau - southern Chile, southern Argentina References Poales g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae. The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, barley, and millet as well as forage, feed for meat-producing animals. They provide, through direct human consumption, just over one-half (51%) of all dietary energy; rice provides 20%, wheat supplies 20%, maize (corn) 5.5%, and other grains 6%. Some members of the Poaceae are used as building materials (bamboo, thatch, and straw); others can provide a source of bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
