Festuca adamovicii

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms 30–80 cm long. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1.3–2.5 mm long. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; 0.7–1 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation comprising 7–9 vascular bundles; with 7–9 inner ridges; with sclerenchyma strands below veins and above all veins; with continuous uniform subepidermal sclerenchyma layer on the underside. Leaf-blade surface smooth. Leaf-blade apex pungent.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle. Peduncle antrorsely scabrous above.

Panicle open; equilateral; 7.5–8 cm long. Panicle branches puberulous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 3–4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 8.5–11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

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 ovate; 5.8–6.2 mm long; 0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; with scarious margins; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex obtuse.

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong; 6.3–7.4 mm long; chartaceous; much thinner on margins; mid-green and purple; suffused with last colour; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex acute; muticous, or mucronate, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0–1 mm long overall. Palea 0.75 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Palea keels ciliate; adorned above. Palea surface puberulous. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 3–3.5 mm long.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; obovoid. Hilum linear. Disseminule comprising a caryopsis.

DISTRIBUTION Europe: southeastern.

NOTES Poeae. Fl Eur 1995.

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