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    Festuca filiformis  POURR.    
 

Fam.: Poaceae / Grass Fam.  

Synon.:  Festuca tenuifolia  SIBTH.

Genus:  Festuca  L.
 

Authors:
   POURR.:  Pierre André Pourret de Figeac (1754 - 1818), French botanist
   SIBTH.:  John Sibthorp (1758 - 1796), British botanist at Oxford
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Festuca:   festuca = stalk
   filiformis:   yam-formed
   tenuifolia:   thin-foliate
 

Festuca filiformis is one of the Hard Fescue species which are difficult to differ from each other. It is one of the tinyest, with leaves which in the transverse section are rolled-in almost completely together to an oval form.

 

Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 1:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 2:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 3:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 4:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 5:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Fig. 6:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 20.5.2014
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 7:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 8:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 9:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 10:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 11:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 12:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 13:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue (leaves rolled-in to an oval transverse section)
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 14:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue (leaves rolled-in to an oval transverse section)
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 15:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 16:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 17:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Fig. 18:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 12.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 18.5.2017
Fig. 19:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 18.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 18.5.2017
Fig. 20:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 18.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 2.6.2017
Fig. 21:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 2.6.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Mannheim 2.6.2017
Fig. 22:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Mannheim 2.6.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Fig. 23:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Fig. 24:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Fig. 25:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Fig. 26:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Rödermark 13.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017
Fig. 27:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017
Fig. 28:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017
Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue, D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017
Fig. 29:  Festuca filiformis / Fine-Leaf Sheep Fescue
D Erlenbach am Main 20.5.2017

 


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