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  1. Family: Poaceae Barnhart
    1. Genus: Festuca Tourn. ex L.

      1. Festuca koritnicensis Hayek & J.Vetter

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Hercegovina to NW. Greece.

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    Habit
    Perennial; caespitose. Butt sheaths persistent and investing base of culm; with compacted dead sheaths. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms 30-48 cm long. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length; with 0.2-0.5 of their length closed; with flat margins; smooth; glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath auricles erect; obtuse. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; angular in section; 0.6-0.9 mm wide; glaucous; pruinose. Leaf-blade venation comprising 7 vascular bundles; with 3-5 inner ridges; with 5-7 subepidermal sclerenchyma strands; with subepidermal sclerenchyma free from veins; without layer of subepidermal sclerenchyma masking vein striation, or with sclerenchyma strands widened to form a discontinuous subepidermal layer. Leaf-blade surface smooth; pubescent; sparsely hairy; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade apex obtuse.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; dense; 5-8 cm long. Panicle branches puberulous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
    Spikelets
    Spikelets comprising 4-5 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 9.5-10 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes obscured by lemmas.
    Fertile
    Spikelets comprising 4-5 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 9.5-10 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes obscured by lemmas.
    Glume
    Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; chartaceous; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 4.7-6.7 mm long; 0.75-0.9 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acuminate.
    Florets
    Fertile lemma oblong; 6.5-7.8 mm long; chartaceous; glaucous and purple; suffused with last colour; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface smooth, or scabrous; rough above. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 3-4 mm long overall; 0.5 length of lemma. Palea 2 -veined. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
    Flowers
    Anthers 3.
    Fruits
    Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid. Hilum linear. Disseminule comprising a caryopsis and palea.
    Distribution
    Europe: southeastern.
    Reference
    Poeae. Fl Eur 1995.

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia

    Festuca koritnicensis Hayek & J.Vetter appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 99: 220 (1924)

    Accepted by

    • Meyer, F.K. (2011). Beiträge zur Flora von Albanien Haussknechtia, Beih. 15: 1-220.
    • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.

    Sources

    GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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