- Family:
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus:
- Festuca Tourn. ex L.
Festuca marginata (Hack.) K.Richt.

[GB]
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial; caespitose. Butt sheaths persistent and investing base of culm; with compacted dead sheaths. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms 25-40 cm long. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length; with 0.1-0.33 of their length closed; with flat margins; glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath auricles erect. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate; 0.7-0.8 mm wide; without exudate, or pruinose. Leaf-blade venation comprising 7 vascular bundles; with 3 inner ridges; with 3 subepidermal sclerenchyma strands; with subepidermal sclerenchyma free from veins. Leaf-blade surface smooth.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; dense; 6-9 cm long. Primary panicle branches moderately divided. Panicle branches glabrous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 5-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 6-6.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes obscured by lemmas.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 5-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 6-6.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes obscured by lemmas.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts 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 lanceolate; 3.25-3.8 mm long; 0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Fertile lemma oblong; 4-4.6 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex acute; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0.7-1 mm long overall. Palea 2 -veined. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Anthers 3.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid. Hilum linear. Disseminule comprising a caryopsis and palea.
- Distribution
- Europe: central and southwestern.
- Reference
- Poeae. Fl Eur 1995.
Native to:
Belgium, France, Spain
Festuca marginata (Hack.) K.Richt. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Gautier, G. [26], France | K000912920 | Yes |
First published in Pl. Eur. 1: 96 (1890)
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.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. 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
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. 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