Colorful fescue
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Fescue fescue ( Festuca bosniaca ) at the natural site (coastal mountains in Montenegro) |
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The fescue fescue ( Festuca bosniaca ) is a species of fescue ( Festuca ) within the sweet grass family (Poaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The colorful fescue is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 30 to 70 centimeters. It forms dense clumps . The colorful fescue has strong and far-reaching roots. All renewal shoots are formed intravaginally. The stalks are mostly erect, and mostly enclosed by two leaf blades. As the ears ripen, the upper part of the stalk curves under the weight of the fruit.
The alternate leaves are cylindrical and have seven to nine leaf veins. The outside of the leaf blades has a continuous palisade clerenchyma . The ligule is 0.5 to 1 millimeter long.
Generative characteristics
The flowering period extends from June to August. The panicle inflorescence hangs mostly and has rough inflorescence axes. The spikelets are pale or colored, more rarely yellowish, and sit on very short peduncles. The upper chaff scales have three nerves practically up to the middle and a rough web.
Occurrence
The distribution area of the Bunt Schwingels extends from the Krainer Schneeberg ( Slovenian Snežnik) in Slovenia via the Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin Dinarides to the Prokletije massif . It also occurs in southern Italy and in Calabria ( Monte Pollino ). Festuca bosniaca belongs to it, as for example also Pinus heldreichii , Gentiana dinarica , Edrainathus graminifolius , Sesleria juncifolia s. l., Leontodon crispus s. st. and Carex kitaibeliana , to the amphi-Adriatic spreading Balkan sub-endemics who penetrate as far as the Apennine peninsula .
Festuca bosniaca thrives on flat to sloping, stony limestone grasslands, often in cool, high altitudes . He is in the Dinarides characteristic species of plant sociological association pungentis Festucion .
use
The colorful fescue is an important pasture for herd animal husbandry .
Taxonomy
The first description of Festuca bosniaca was made in 1849 by Ferdinand grief and Otto Sendtner in Flora (Royal Bavarian Botanical Society in Regensburg), Volume 32, page 756. synonyms for Festuca bosniaca Kumm. & Sendtn. are: Festuca pungens Kit., Festuca varia subsp. pungens (kit.) Hayek.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radomir Lakušić: Festuca pungens Kit., P 169. Planinske biljke. Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1988.
- ↑ Bostjan Surina: Some novelties in the flora and vegetation of Mt Snežnik (SW Slovenia, Liburnian karst). In: Acta Botanica Croatica , Volume 64, Issue 2, 2005, pp. 341-356.
