- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Festuca Tourn. ex L.
Festuca boliviana E.B.Alexeev
- Genus: Festuca Tourn. ex L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Bolivia.
Descriptions
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
[GB]- Habit
- Perennial; caespitose. Culms 60-100 cm long. Culm-internodes mid-green. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; 0.7-1.3 mm long. Leaf-blades conduplicate; 10-30 cm long; 0.8-1.2 mm wide; coriaceous; glaucous. Leaf-blade surface scabrous; rough adaxially; glabrous.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle contracted; linear; 16-22 cm long. Primary panicle branches appressed. Panicle branches glabrous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 3-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear, or lanceolate; laterally compressed; 8-9 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 3-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear, or lanceolate; laterally compressed; 8-9 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
- Glume
- Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 2.5-3 mm long; 0.66-0.75 length of upper glume; chartaceous; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 3.7-4 mm long; 0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.
- Florets
- Fertile lemma lanceolate; 5.5-6 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface scabrous; rough above. Lemma apex acute; muticous, or mucronate. Palea 1 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
- Flowers
- Anthers 3; 3 mm long. Ovary glabrous.
- Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum linear.
- Distribution
- South America: western South America.
- Reference
- Poeae. Gr Bolivia 1997.
Distribution
Other Data
Festuca boliviana E.B.Alexeev appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 70: 1243 (1985)
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.
- Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Sources
GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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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