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

      1. Festuca vaginata Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Central Europe to Ukraine.

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    Habit
    Perennial; caespitose. Butt sheaths purple; persistent and investing base of culm; with compacted dead sheaths. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms 25-60 cm long. Culm-internodes smooth. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length; with 0 of their length closed; with flat margins; glabrous on surface, or pubescent. Leaf-sheath auricles erect; obtuse. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; circular in section; 0.6-1.2 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation comprising 9-11 vascular bundles; with 3-5 inner ridges; with subepidermal sclerenchyma free from veins; with continuous uniform subepidermal sclerenchyma layer on the underside. Leaf-blade surface smooth. Leaf-blade apex obtuse.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; 9-15 cm long. Primary panicle branches ascending, or spreading. Panicle branches glabrous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
    Spikelets
    Spikelets comprising 3-7 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 4.3-6.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes obscured by lemmas.
    Fertile
    Spikelets comprising 3-7 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 4.3-6.5 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 ovate; 2.4-3.7 mm long; 0.8 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex obtuse, or acute.
    Florets
    Fertile lemma ovate; 3-4.5 mm long; chartaceous; glaucous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex obtuse; muticous, or mucronate, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0-1 mm long overall. 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: central, southeastern, and eastern.
    Reference
    Poeae. Fl Eur 1995.

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

    Festuca vaginata Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd. appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Enum. Pl.: 116 (1809)

    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.
    • 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