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Festuca myuros

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Name

Identification
Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Festuca myuros L. [family POACEAE ] Festuca vulpia unrecorded [family POACEAE ] Festuca mannii unrecorded [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Festuca depressa
  • Festuca mannii
  • Vulpia octoflora
  • Festuca myuros
  • Festuca muralis
  • Festuca crinita
  • Festuca megalura
  • Festuca vulpia
  • Festuca myurus
  • Festuca sp.
  • Festuca parviflora
  • Festuca sciurea
  • Festuca pygmaea
  • Vulpia bromoides
  • Festuca bromoides
  • Vulpia myuros

Flora

Entry for VULPIA myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
VULPIA myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. [family POACEAE], Fl. Bad. 1: 8 (1806); R.K.G.: 15 (1958). Type from Europe (exact typification unresolved)
Festuca myuros L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 74 (1753)
Information
Annual. Culms 10–70 cm. high, tufted or solitary, erect or geniculately ascending, slender. Leaf-blades 2–15 cm. long and 0.5–3 mm. wide, flat or rolled, firm to flaccid, rough on the margins, puberulous above. Panicle linear, 5–30 cm. long, loose to somewhat dense, mostly curved or nodding, enclosed below by the uppermost sheath, or just exserted from it. Spikelets oblong or wedge-shaped, 7–10 mm. long (excluding awns), 3–7-flowered, green or purplish; lower glume linear-lanceolate, 1–3 mm. long; upper glume subulate-lanceolate, 3–8 mm. long; lemmas 5–7 mm. long, scabrid, tipped with a scaberulous awn up to 15 mm. long; anther usually 1, 0.3–1 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K3, 4 Europe and Mediterranean region; introduced to South Africa and other temperate countries
Altitude range
1920–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District 6 km. W. of Nakuru, 10 Oct. 1951, Bogdan 3278! & 16 km. N. of Gilgil, 8 Dec. 1948, Bogdan 2158!KENYA Mt. Kenya, Sirimon Track, 24 Dec. 1962, Verdcourt 3463!

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