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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Festuca koritnicensis
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; 0.5 mm long. 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.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.
Panicle open; dense; 5–8 cm long. Panicle branches puberulous.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
FERTILE 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.
GLUMES 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.
FLOWER Lodicules 2. Anthers 3. Ovary glabrous.
FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid. Hilum linear. Disseminule comprising a caryopsis and palea.
DISTRIBUTION Europe: southeastern.
NOTES Poeae. Fl Eur 1995.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.
