Juncus ranarius

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderPoales
5. FamilyJuncaceae

Native toAlbania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia

Observations recorded17,147

Plants annual, 4--12 cm tall. Stems usually many, erect or ascending, often weak. Leaves basal and cauline; leaf blade flat and margin convolute to subterete, 1.5--5 cm × 0.5--1 mm; leaves below inflorescence 1--4. Inflorescences of capitate clusters or occasionally lax; involucral bract leaflike. Bracteoles 2, broadly ovate, 1.5--2 × ca. 1.5 mm. Perianth segments whitish, lanceolate; outer segments 3--5 × 1--1.4 mm, center green and thick, margin membranous, apex acute; inner segments 2.8--3.3 × 0.3--1.2 mm, mostly scarious, apex obtuse to rarely acute. Stamens 6; filaments 0.8--1.3 mm; anthers 0.3--0.7 mm. Style absent; stigmas ca. 0.5 mm. Capsule trigonous ellipsoid, 2.9--4 mm, slightly longer than inner perianth segments, apex obtuse. Seeds broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.4--0.5 mm, base and apex obtuse. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul--Sep. 2 n = 34.

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