familyPoaceae
subfamilyPoaceae subfam. Pooideae
tribePoaceae tribe Poeae
genusFestuca
subgenusFestuca subg. Festuca
sectionFestuca sect. Breviaristatae
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Festuca sect. Breviaristatae
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 406.
Plants usually densely cespitose, sometimes loosely cespitose, rhizomes short or absent. Innovations mostly intravaginal. Blades usually more or less stiff, conduplicate, sometimes convolute or flat; ribs usually distinct; sclerenchyma girders usually present at the major veins, rarely absent. Calluses wider than long, scabrous on the margins; lemmas chartaceous, sometimes somewhat coriaceous, apices entire, awned or unawned; ovary apices usually pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent, rarely glabrous.
Discussion
Festuca sect. Breviaristatae is distributed in Asia and North America. It contains about 15 species.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"wider than long" is not a number."decumbent" is not a number."longest" is not a number.
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absent +
common +
absent +
bulliform +
absent +
hispidulous +
absent +
absent +
straight +
arising +
single +
close +
free +
hard +
thick +
parallel +
conduplicate +
pruinose +
stiff +
not evident +
glaucous +
spreading;widely spreading +
1;2 +
spikelike +
developed +
glabrous +
not branching +
annual +
climbing +
floating +
not woody +
reduced +
Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, B.C. +, W.Va. +, Wis. +, Ala. +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, D.C +, Del. +, Ga. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Iowa +, Idaho +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, Md. +, Maine +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mont. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, N.Mex. +, Nev. +, Oreg. +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Vt. +, Alaska +, Mass. +, N.H. +, R.I. +, Fla. +, Wyo. +, Kans. +, Tex. +, La. +, Miss. +, Tenn. +, N.C. +, S.Dak. +, Utah +, Va. +, Ark. +, Okla. +, Alta. +, Greenland +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.S. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Ohio + and Mo. +
capillary +
adjacent +
sometimes longer +
distal +
bisexual +
compressed +
reduced +
shorter +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
absent +
equal +
persisting +
uncinate +
punctate +
1/2 +
compound +
reduced +
hollow +
absent +
absent +
distichous +
1-7(9)-veined +
adjacent +
shorter +
longer +
chartaceous +
bidentate +
coriaceous +
equal +
truncate +
absent +
acute +
membranous +
veined +
truncate +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
membranous +
reflexed +
1(3)-veined +
simple +
adjacent +
absent +
well-developed +
absent +
2-keeled +
minute +
contracted +
spikelike +
reduced +
absent +
separating +
thin +
not developed +
absent +
prolonged +
evident +
open +
closed +
open +
senescent +
ebracteate +
mixed +
attached +
viviparous +
compressed +
parallel-sided +
Festuca sect. Breviaristatae +
Festuca subg. Festuca +
section +
hyaline +
membranous +
3(5)-veined +
scabrous-ciliate +
absent +
perennial +
bisexual +