Luzula kjellmanianaMiyabe & Kudô

tundra woodrush

WFO wfo-0000777878 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Luzula kjellmaniana, photographed by Владимир Береснев
fig. a Владимир Береснев, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-22 / obs. 190026879

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3525607
Filed as
Luzula kjellmaniana Miyabe & Kudô
Det. by
Shetler, Stanwyn G., (US), NMNH
Collected
W. Sladen 1961-07-16
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Luzula kjellmaniana is native: Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Yakutiya, Alaska, Aleutian Is., British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon JapanKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanYakutiyaAlaskaBritish ColumbiaNorthwest TerritoriesYukon
Native distribution of Luzula kjellmaniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Aleutian Is. ALU
British Columbia BRC
Northwest Territories NWT
Yukon YUK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Aleutian Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Luzula arctica subsp. latifolia (Kjellm.) A.E.Porsild
  • Luzula arctica var. latifolia (Kjellm.) Nilsson ex Buchenau
  • Luzula arcuata f. latifolia Kjellm.
  • Luzula beeringiana Gjaerev.
  • Luzula berringiana Gjaerevoll
  • Luzula confusa f. latifolia Buchenau
  • Luzula confusa var. latifolia (Kjellm. ex Nordensk.) Buchenau
  • Luzula hyperborea var. latifolia (Buchenau) B.Boivin
  • Luzula multiflora subsp. kjellmaniana (Miyabe & Kudô) Tolm.
  • Luzula multiflora var. kjellmaniana (Miyabe & Kudô) Sam.
  • Luzula nivalis var. latifolia (Kjellm.) Sam. ex Hultén
  • Luzula nivalis var. latifolia Sam.
  • Luzula tundricola Gorodkov ex V.N.Vassil.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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