Genus: Festuca L.

List of Species Records in GRIN.

References for genus:

• Aiken, S. G. et al. 1998. Implications from SDS-PAGE analysis of seed proteins in the classification of taxa of Festuca and Lolium (Poaceae). Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 26:511–533.
  
• Catalan, P. et al. 2004. Phylogeny of the festucoid grasses of subtribe Loliinae and allies (Poeae, Pooideae) inferred from ITS and trnL-F sequences. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 31:517–541. [paraphyletic as currently delimited].
  
• Chen, X. et al. 2003. Systematic studies of Festuca (Poaceae) occurring in China compared with taxa in North America. Canad. J. Bot. 81:1008–1028.
  
• Torrecilla, P. & P. Catalan. 2002. Phylogeny of broad-leaved and fine-leaved Festuca lineages (Poaceae) based on nuclear ITS sequences. Syst. Bot. 27:241–251. [a paraphyletic genus as currently circumscribed].
  
• Torrecilla, P. et al. 2003. Systematics of Festuca L. sects. EskiaPseudatropis Kriv., Amphigenes (Janka) Tzvel., Pseudoscariosa Kriv. and Scariosae Hack. based on analysis of morphological characters and DNA sequences. Pl. Syst. Evol. 239:113–139.
  

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Synonyms (=), probable synonyms (=~), and possible synonyms (~) for genus:

• (= ) Amphigenes Janka
• (= ) Anatherum Nábelek
• (= ) Argillochloa W. A. Weber
• (= ) Bucetum Parn.
• (= ) Dielsiochloa Pilg.
• (=~) Drymochloa Holub
• (= ) Drymonaetes Fourr., nom. inval.
• (= ) Festucaria Heist. ex Fabr.
• (= ) Gnomonia Lunell
• (= ) Gramen Krause
• (= ) Helleria E. Fourn.
• (= ) Hellerochloa Rauschert
• (= ) Hesperochloa (Piper) Rydb.
• (= ) Laston Pau
• (= ) Leiopoa Ohwi
• (=~) Leucopoa Griseb.
• (= ) Lojaconoa Gand.
• (~ ) Loliolum V. I. Krecz. & Bobrov
• (~ ) Micropyrum (Gaudin) Link
• (= ) Nabelekia Roshev.
• (= ) Narduroides Rouy
• (=~) Pseudobromus K. Schum.
• (~ ) Psilurus Trin.
• (=~) Schedonorus P. Beauv.
• (= ) Schoenodorus Roem. & Schult., orth. var.
• (~ ) Vulpia C. C. Gmel.
• (= ) Wangenheimia Moench
• (= ) Wasatchia M. E. Jones

Check other nomenclature databases for Festuca:

• ING: Index Nominum Genericorum
• NCU-3e: Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera

Images:

• Caryopses (Festuca gigantea): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Floret (Festuca pratensis): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Florets (Festuca arizonica): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca arundinacea): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca arundinacea): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Florets (Festuca brachyphylla): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca californica): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca filiformis): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca gigantea): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca gigantea): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca glauca): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca heterophylla): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca idahoensis): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca kingii): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca longifolia): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca ovina): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca ovina): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Florets (Festuca pratensis): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca rubra): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca rubra subsp. commutata): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Florets (Festuca rubra subsp. rubra): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Florets (Festuca trachyphylla): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets (Festuca trachyphylla): Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Forestry Images (Festuca arizonica): from www.forestryimages.org
• Forestry Images (Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea): Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Forestry Images (Festuca thurberi): from www.forestryimages.org
• Forestry Images (Festuca viridula): from www.forestryimages.org
• Inflorescence (Festuca gigantea): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence (Festuca kingii): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence (Festuca trachyphylla): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets (Festuca glauca): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets (Festuca heterophylla): U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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