Family: Poaceae
Festuca arundinacea
Citation:
Schreber, Spicil. Fl. Lips. 57 (1771).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Tall meadow fescue, tall fescue.
Description:
Stout erect grass to over 1 m high; blades flat, 3-10 mm broad, scabrous on the margins; ligule very short, truncate.
Panicle loose, 15-30 cm long, the branches twin, unequal, bearing 5-15 spikelets; spikelets 8-12 mm long, 4-6-flowered; first glume c. 4 mm long, 1-nerved, the second c. 6 mm long, 3-nerved; lemma stiff, 7-8 mm long, 5-nerved, with a very short subterminal awn or mucro (0.5-2 mm long).
Published illustration:
Burbidge (1968) Australian grasses 2:pl. 2.
Distribution:
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Introduced as a pasture grass and since become naturalised.
W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native to Europe and Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: principally Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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