Festuca kemerovensis

HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Culms 50–60 cm long. Culm-internodes distally glabrous. Leaf-sheaths tubular for much of their length; with 0.8 of their length closed; glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; elliptic in section; 20–25 cm long; 0.4–0.5 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation comprising 5 vascular bundles; with 1(–3) inner ridges; with 3 subepidermal sclerenchyma strands; without layer of subepidermal sclerenchyma masking vein striation. Leaf-blade surface glabrous.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; 5–6 cm long. Panicle axis scabrous. Panicle branches scabrous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 4–5 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 5.5–6.5 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 lanceolate; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acuminate.

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong; 3.5–4 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 1.6–2 mm long overall. Palea 2 -veined. Palea keels scaberulous; adorned above; with 0.33 of their length adorned. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 2–2.2 mm long. Ovary glabrous.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: Siberia.

NOTES Poeae. Czus. 2006.

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