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Illustrator: Cindy Roché

Copyright: Utah State University

Culms 60-120 cm, glabrous or pubescent for less than 5 mm below the nodes. Sheaths usually glabrous or scabrous, sometimes pubescent; collars glabrous or indistinctly pubescent; ligules (1)1.5-5 mm, sometimes ciliate, abaxial surfaces pubescent; blades 3-6.5 mm wide, conduplicate or flat, ribs 7-15(17), usually more than 1/2 as deep as the blade thickness, abaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent proximally, adaxial surfaces pubescent; abaxial sclerenchyma forming continuous bands; adaxial sclerenchyma present; girders usually formed at most veins. Inflorescences 15-25 cm. Spikelets 8-12(17) mm, with (4)5-6(8) florets. Lemmas usually entire, sometimes minutely bidentate. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Festuca californica subsp. hitch cockiana is distinguished by its relatively long ligules. It is known only from Santa Clara and San Luis Obispo counties, California.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.