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Festuca abyssinica

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Identification
Isotype of Festuca abyssinica Hochst. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Alexeev, E.,
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  • Festuca elgonensis
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Flora

Entry for FESTUCA abyssinica A. Rich. [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
FESTUCA abyssinica A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 432 (1851); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 21 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 192 (1955); A.V.P.: 37, 254 (1957); R.K.G.: 15 (1958); I.G.U.: 34 (1960); G.T.: 14 (1965). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Mt. Scholoda [Selleuda], Schimper 410 (K, iso.!)
Information
Caespitose perennial; culms 15–60 cm. high. Leaf-blades filiform to involute or acicular, 3–25 cm. long and up to 3 mm. wide; ligule up to 1 mm. long. Panicle subspiciform to linear, 8–20 cm. long, the short branches scabrid and closely appressed to the axis. Spikelets 2–6-flowered, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 6.5–12 mm. long, not gaping, purplish-green; glumes broad, with membranous margins, embracing the spikelet and ± three-quarters its length; lower glume lanceolate, 5.5–8.5 mm. long, 1–3-nerved (nearly always 3-nerved in at least some of the spikelets in a panicle); upper glume lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 6–10 mm. long, 3(–5)-nerved; lemmas scaberulous, the lower 6.5–9.5 mm. long, with an awn-point 1–3(–5) mm. long from the tip or sometimes awnless; palea as long as the lemma, the keels scaberulous; ovary glabrous or hairy on top.

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