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W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson

© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Festuca anatolica

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms 30–50 cm long. Culm-internodes distally glabrous. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length; with 0.33 of their length closed; smooth; glabrous on surface; outer margin hairy. Leaf-sheath auricles absent. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.5–1.6 mm long; obtuse. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; 0.5–1 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation comprising 7–9 vascular bundles; with 5–7 inner ridges; with continuous uniform subepidermal sclerenchyma layer on the underside. Leaf-blade surface smooth; pubescent; hairy adaxially. Leaf-blade apex muticous, or pungent.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; oblong, or ovate; 3–5 cm long. Panicle branches smooth, or scabrous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 4–5 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate, or oblong; laterally compressed; 9.5–11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate; 4.4–7.3 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; chartaceous; much thinner above; much thinner on margins; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex obtuse. Upper glume ovate; 4.4–7.3 mm long; 0.66–1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; much thinner above; with scarious margins; without keels; 1–3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate, or oblong; 6.4–7.1 mm long; 2.6–3.3 mm wide; chartaceous; much thinner on margins; yellow and purple; suffused with last colour; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex acuminate; muticous, or mucronate, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0–1 mm long overall. Palea 1 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.

FLOWER Anthers 3. Ovary pubescent on apex.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex. Hilum linear.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: western Asia.

NOTES Poeae. Fl Turk 1997.

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