Plants usually densely cespitose, sometimes loosely cespitose, rhizomes short or absent. Innovations mostly intravaginal. Blades usually more or less stiff, conduplicate, sometimes convolute or flat; ribs usually distinct; sclerenchyma girders usually present at the major veins, rarely absent. Calluses wider than long, scabrous on the margins; lemmas chartaceous, sometimes somewhat coriaceous, apices entire, awned or unawned; ovary apices usually pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent, rarely glabrous.

Discussion

Festuca sect. Breviaristatae is distributed in Asia and North America. It contains about 15 species.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Festuca altaica, Festuca californica, Festuca campestris, Festuca hallii, Festuca ligulata, Festuca thurberi