Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) • Earth.com

Smallflower Fescue

(Festuca minutiflora)

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Description

HABIT Perennial. Basal innovations intravaginal. Culms slender; 10-15 cm long. Leaves mostly basal. Leaf-sheaths 2-4 cm long; smooth. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.75 mm long; obtuse. Leaf-blades involute; 1-10 cm long; 0.5 mm wide; flaccid. Panicle open; linear; 2-4 cm long. Primary panicle branches appressed.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Poales
Family:Poaceae
Genus:Festuca
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