Festuca ampla (Festuca ampla)
Description
It is a cespitosa plant , with intravaginal innovations. It has stems up to 100 cm high, striated, glabrous. Sheets with sheath of free margins, fluted; 0.1-0.5 mm ligule, truncated, often lacerated, sometimes ciliolated; Limb of up to 40 cm in length and 0.3-0.7 mm in width, glabrous, scabrous or solid, in innovations always folded throughout its length and in folded and set-ceo or flattened caulin leaves. Panicle 8-27 cm, pyramidal or ovate, lax, with scabrous axis and branches erect-patent or patent in anthesis, scabrous. Spikelets 6-14 mm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblong-obovate, with 3-8 flowers; 1-1.5 mm racemes, antrorso-ese-bridos. Unequal glumes; The lower one of 2-4 mm, narrowly lanceolate; The upper 3.5-7 mm, lanceolate, With narrow scraggy margin. Motto of 4.5-7 mm, lanceolate, with nerves barely marked, gradually attenuated in sharp point, mucronada or with an edge of up to 2 mm. Palea slightly shorter than the motto. Anthers 2.3-4 mm. Ovary glabrous. Flowers from April to June.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Poaceae
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Genus: Festuca
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