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Festuca arundinacea

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Name

Identification
Festuca arundinacea Schreb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Festuca x aschersoniana Dörfl. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Schenodorus pratensis
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  • Festuca elatior
  • Festuca gigas
  • festuca arundinacea
  • Festuca arundinacea
  • Festuca sibirica
  • Festuca rubra
  • festuca caerulescens
  • Festuca x aschersoniana

Flora

Entry for FESTUCA arundinacea Schreb. [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 arundinacea Schreb. [family POACEAE], Spic. Fl. Lips.: 57 (1771). Type: Germany, Schreber (M, holo.)
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 45–180 cm. high. Leaf-blades 10–60 cm. long and 3–12 mm. wide, flat, with minutely hairy falcate auricles; leaf-sheaths glabrous. Panicle lanceolate to ovate, 10–50 cm. long, loose or contracted. Spikelets closely 3–10-flowered, elliptic to oblong, 10–18 mm. long; lower glume 3–6 mm. long, the upper 4.5–7 mm. long; lemmas narrowly ovate, 6–9 mm. long, awnless or with a fine bristle up to 4 mm. long from just below the hyaline tip; palea as long as the lemma; ovary glabrous; anthers 3–4 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K3 Europe and temperate Asia; widely introduced elsewhere
Altitude range
2300–3000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Ravine District 8 km. NW. of Timboroa, 17 May 1959, Bogdan 4825!KENYA Nakuru District 32 km. on Thomsons Falls to Nakuru road, 14 Aug. 1952, Bogdan 3528! & 3 km. W. of Thomsons Falls, 20 Jan. 1959, Bogdan 4760!
Notes
Introduced to Kenya as a pasture grass, this species seems to have established itself in a few localities.

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