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Festuca L.

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Festuca L., Sp. Pl. 73 (1753)
Festuca L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
73
ICN
Festuca L.
genus
Festuca

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Festuca

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Festuca L.

Perennial caespitose, stoloniferous, or rhizomatous. Leaf-sheath split to base or margins fused, apical auricles small. Ligule ciliolate. Leaf-blade convolute, or folded; usually persistent; pungent in F. ultramafica; variable in TS. Culms unbranched; nodes glabrous. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle of 2-many-flowered laterally compressed, pedicelled spikelets disarticulating above the glumes. Glumes unequal or subequal, persistent, ± keeled and ornamented, rarely exceeding lemmas. Lemma lanceolate-acute or awned, rounded on back or slightly carinate, membranous to thinly coriaceous, 5-7-nerved, awn terminal. Palea bidentate, keels scabrid. Flowers ☿, usually chasmogamous. Lodicules 2, unequally lobed, often hair-tipped. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous or hispid hairy at apex. Caryopsis dorsiconvex, ventrally sulcate, free; embryo small; hilum long, linear. Fig. 6.

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Festuca L.
Argentina
Festuca L.
Australia
Macquarie Island
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Bhutan
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Chile
Festuca L.
France
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Festuca L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Festuca L.
United Kingdom

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029163d4-85d0-429a-a35b-0a2e2dadc51c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 January 2014
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