Distichia muscoides Nees & Meyen
Family: Juncaceae
Description: Perennial herbs, forming dense, hard cushions up to several meters in diameter; single plants consisting of 5-15 cm long, more or less regularly forked shoots, covered by short, strictly distichous, persistent, stramineous or rarely dark brown, wilted lea
Habitat: wet puna at 3600-4600m
| Form of cushion | TC_M | Intermediate beetweenT C & M types |
| Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
| Variability | 0 | No variability |
| Root system | A | Numerous adventious roots |
| Woodiness | 0 | Herbaceaous |
| Thorniness | 0 | No |
| Succulence | 0 | No |
| Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |
| AGW |
| BOL |
| CLM |
| CLN |
| ECU |
| PER |
| AGW-JU |
| AGW-SA |
| AGW-TU |
| BOL-OO |
| CLM-OO |
| CLN-AN |
| CLN-TA |
| ECU-OO |
| PER-OO |
