- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Festuca Tourn. ex L.
Festuca longivaginata Tovar
- Genus: Festuca Tourn. ex L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Peru.
Descriptions
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
[GB]- Habit
- Perennial. Culms erect; 60-65 cm long; 3-4 -noded. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length; puberulous. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; 1 mm long; truncate. Leaf-blades 20-40 cm long; 3-5 mm wide; 8-10 cm long at summit of culm. Leaf-blade surface puberulous; hairy adaxially.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; ovate; 20-25 cm long. Primary panicle branches ascending; 6-12 cm long. Panicle branches scabrous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels scabrous.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 10-11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes scaberulous.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 10-11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes scaberulous.
- Glume
- Glumes persistent; similar; with lower narrower than upper; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 4-4.2 mm long; 0.75 length of upper glume; chartaceous; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume surface smooth, or asperulous; rough above. Lower glume apex acuminate, or setaceously attenuate. Upper glume lanceolate; 5-5.5 mm long; 0.7-0.8 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins prominent. Upper glume surface smooth, or asperulous; rough above. Upper glume apex acute.
- Florets
- Fertile lemma oblong; 6.5-7 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface scaberulous; rough above. Lemma apex acuminate; muticous, or mucronate. Palea 1 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Palea keels ciliolate. Palea surface puberulous; hairy above. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
- Flowers
- Anthers 3; 3.5 mm long.
- Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum linear.
- Distribution
- South America: western South America.
- Reference
- Poeae. Tovar 1995.
Images
Distribution
Other Data
Festuca longivaginata Tovar appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (1 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cerrate, E. [2474], Peru | K000433650 | isotype |
Bibliography
First published in Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. "Javier Prado" 16: 34 (1972)
Accepted by
- Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286.
Sources
GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0