Festuca frederikseniae

Festuca frederikseniae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Festuca
Species: F. frederikseniae
Binomial name
Festuca frederikseniae
E.B. Alexeev
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Festuca duriuscula var. hirsuta Lange
  • Festuca ovina var. hirsuta Lange
  • Festuca vivipara subsp. hirsuta (Schol.) Fred.
  • Festuca vivipara var. hirsuta Schol.

Festuca frederikseniae is a species of grass native to Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador, and to a few islands in eastern Québec (Mingan Archipelago and Anticosti Island). In Iceland and southern Greenland, a few populations have been found that may be hybrids between F. rubra and either F. frederikseniae or F. vivipara. The purported hybrids have been named F. x villosa-vivipara.[3] All these species grow on cliffs and on rocky or sandy soils in alpine tundra.[4][5][6][7][8]


Festuca frederikseniae is a caespitose herb forming tight clumps of plants up to 45 cm (18 inches) tall. Leaf blades are conduplicate (folded lengthwise). Inflorescence is up to 10 cm (4 inches) long with densely hairy spikelet bracts and fascicles. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos
  2. ↑ The Plant List
  3. ↑ Alexeev, Eugeniy Borisovich. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshchikh Rastenii 22: 23. 1985.
  4. ↑ Darbyshire, Stephen J., & Leon E. Pavlik. Festuca. Utah State University Intermountain Herbarium. Logan.
  5. ↑ Alexeev, E.B. 1977. To the systematics of Asian fescues (Festuca): I. Subgenera Drymanthele, Subulatae, Schedonorus, Leucopoa. Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol., n.s., 82(3):95–102.
  6. ↑ Alexeev, E.B. 1980. Festuca L.: Subgenera et sectiones novae ex America boreali et Mexico. Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 17:42–53.
  7. ↑ Alexeev, E.B. 1982. New and little known fescues (Festuca L.) of North America. Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol., n.s., 87(2):109–118.
  8. ↑ Darbyshire, S.J., R. J. Soreng, D. Stančík & S. D. Koch. 2003. Festuca. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 48: 312–368.
  9. ↑ Alexeev, Eugeniy Borisovich. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshchikh Rastenii 22: 28. 1985.
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