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Juncus alexandri L.A.S.Johnson subsp. alexandri Family Juncaceae
Juncus alexandri subsp. alexandri L.A.S.Johnson APNI*

Cataphylls yellow-brown, dark yellow-brown or red-brown (not blackish) towards the base; 'cortical' air-spaces absent from the culms or few or small.

Tepals acute, mostly 1.6–2.2 mm long; cataphylls 7–14 cm long; lowest involucral bract 3–10 cm long, shorter than to longer than inflorescence; capsule obovoid. Culms 40–150 cm long, 1.6–2.7 (rarely to 3.5) mm diam.; culm striations 37–55. Tepals with broad hyaline margins. Anthers 0.4–0.5 mm, shorter than or equalling filaments.

Capsule occasionally red-brown near apex.

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Distribution and occurrence: South from Captains Flat
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
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Text by K. L. Wilson, L. A. S. Johnson & P. Bankoff
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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