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.

"wider than long" is not a number."decumbent" is not a number."longest" is not a number.

pilose +, pubescent +, puberulent +, scabrous +  and glabrous +
membranous +  and scarious +
puberulent +  and hirsute +
unawned +, awned +  and entire +
hispidulous +
mucronate +, awned +, bidentate +, acute +  and attenuate +
Stephen J. Darbyshire +  and Leon E. Pavlickf +
Krivot. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
straight +
basal +  and terminal +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
keeled +  and rounded +
swelling +
not deciduous +  and deciduous +
not evident +
flat +  and convolute +
spreading;widely spreading +
spikelike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not branching +
ascending +  and erect +
pubescent +, scabrous +  and glabrous +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
not woody +
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. +
1/4 +  and 1/3 +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
2 +  and 10 +
compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
ovate +  and lanceolate acute +
unequal +  and subequal +
persisting +
uncinate +
puberulent +, scabrous +  and glabrous +
1-7(9)-veined +
awned +  and entire +
bidentate +
coriaceous +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
with hispidulous apices +  and glabrous +
well-developed +
2-keeled +
spikelike +
dry +  and fleshy +
glabrous +, pubescent +  and scabrous +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Festuca sect. Breviaristatae +
Festuca subg. Festuca +
section +
membranous +
parallel +  and converging +
obscure +  and prominent +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +