Festuca viviparoidea subsp. viviparoidea

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 437.
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Illustrator: Cindy Roché

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Plants densely cespitose. Culms densely to sparsely puberulent below the inflorescence. Sheaths stramineous, persistent; abaxial sclerenchyma strands about twice as wide as the adjacent veins, 2-3 times as wide as high. Glumes and lemmas smooth or scabrous near the apices. 2n = 49, 56.

Discussion

Festuca viviparoidea subsp. viviparoidea is circumpolar and found in the high arctic, including Alaska, Yukon Territory, Nunavut, Greenland, Svalbard, and Russia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Stephen J. Darbyshire +  and Leon E. Pavlickf +
Krajina ex Pavlick +
Mont. +, Alaska +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Greenland +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Que. +, Yukon +  and Wyo. +
Festuca vivipara subsp. glabra +
Festuca viviparoidea subsp. viviparoidea +
Festuca viviparoidea +
subspecies +