Juncus minutulus, Albert & Jahandiez

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 107

27. J. minutulus Albert & Jahandiez , Cat. Pl. Vase. Dép. Var 501 (1908).

Plant caespitose, rarely with only one stem. Stems 0-5-5(-15) cm, slender, erect or ascending, with at most one short leaf below the inflorescence, the lower bracts leaf-like. Leaves 0-5-2 cm, less than 1 mm wide, flat to subterete. Inflorescence with 2-15(-20) flowers; flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters. Perianth-segments narrowly ovate, with a wide scarious margin; outer 4-6-5 mm; inner apiculate. Stamens 3 or rarely 6, P I as long as perianth; anthers 0-2-0- 6 mm, P| as long as the filaments. Capsule 2-5-3 mm, shorter than perianth, ovoid, obtuse; style-base persisting as a mucro 0- 1 -0-2 mm. Seeds 0-35-0-4(-0-5) mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth or finely striate. Flowers usually cleistogamous. 2n —c. 70. Open, usually sandy ground. Much of Europe, but rare in the east; distribution imperfectly known. Au Be Br Cz Da Ga Ge Gr He Ho Hs Hu It Lu No Po Rm Rs (?N, C, E) Si Su Tu