Juncaceae Juss.
Luzula modesta Buchenau , legitimate, scientific
Buchenau, F.G.P. in Engler, H.G.A. (1906), Juncaceae. Das Pflanzenreich 25: 80, Fig. 51 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Tasmania: In feuchten moosigen subalpinen GrĂ¼nden, dicht verflochten mit Moosen, Cladonien und Zwergstauden: Oxalis magellanica Forster und Hydrocotyle tasmanica Hook.f. wachsend; Mount Field, ca. 1000 m (L. Diels n. 6242)."
Nordenskiold, H. (1969), The genus Luzula in Australia. Botaniska Notiser 122: 79 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Luzula australasica Steud. legitimate
Jansen, M.E. (1979), Notes on Luzula (Juncaceae) in Malesia, Tasmania and Australia. Blumea 24(2): 532 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 23 [secondary reference]
Edgar, E. & Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Luzula. Flora of New South Wales 4: 292 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Juncaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 82 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Luzula. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 236, Fig. 50f-g [secondary reference]
Kirschner, J. (2002), Juncaceae 1: Rostkovia to Luzula. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 6: 148-149, Map 136 APC [secondary reference]
  • Type: Diels 6242; holo: B, destroyed; icon in H.G.A.Engler, Pflanzenr. (iv.36) 25: 80, fig. 51 (1906); neo: designated here by E. Edgar.
misapplication: Luzula australasica Steud. legitimate by Nordenskiold, H. (1969), The genus Luzula in Australia. Botaniska Notiser 122: 79-80, Fig. 5D misapplication: Luzula australasica Steud. legitimate by Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 154, Fig. 131
  • APC Comment: Hybrids between Luzula modesta and L. novae-cambriae are known from NSW and Vic.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 91 [secondary reference]