Festuca versicolor versicolor Tausch, Flora 4(2): 559 (1821) et Tausch ex Kraj., Publ. Fac. Sc. Univ. Charles, Prague 106: 25 (1930), non J.Presl ex Kunth

Novikov, Andriy, 2023, An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103921-103921 : 103921

Festuca versicolor versicolor Tausch, Flora 4(2): 559 (1821) et Tausch ex Kraj., Publ. Fac. Sc. Univ. Charles, Prague 106: 25 (1930), non J.Presl ex Kunth

Festuca minor = Festuca minor Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 795 (1866), non St.-Lag.; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/8351667; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/403091-1; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/403091-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10544846#page/817

Festuca varia = Festuca varia f. acuminata Sagorski & Schneider, Fl. Centralkarp. 2: 554 (1891), non (Gaudin) Bolzon

Festuca varia = Festuca varia [unranked] Festuca giewontica Zapał., Consp. Fl. Galic. Crit. 1: 71 (1906)

Festuca varia = Festuca varia [unranked] Trisetum flavescens Zapał., Consp. Fl. Galic. Crit. 1: 70 (1906), non Gaudin

Festuca varia = Festuca varia subsp. pumila [unranked] spiculis flavescentibus Gaudin ex Hack. in Sagorski & Schneider, Fl. Centralkarp. 2: 554 (1891)

Festuca varia = Festuca varia var. scopariaeformis Kotula, Rozmieszczenie roślin naczyniowych w Tatrach: 456 (1890)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. rodnensis Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 37 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. rodnensis f. minor Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 38 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. rodnensis f. typica Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 38 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. transsilvanica Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 38 (1930); JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.w19160032081

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. transsilvanica f. Kotschyi Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 39 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. transsilvanica f. pallens Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 39 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. transsilvanica f. typica Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 39 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 31 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. chrysantha Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 32 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. curvala Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 32 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. debilis Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 33 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. giewontica ( Zapał.) Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 33 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. glaucophylla Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ.: 33 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. mutica Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 33 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. robustior Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 32 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. scopariaeformis (Kotula) Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 32 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. typica Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 32 (1930)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. eu-versicolor var. genuina subvar. vulgaris f. zapalowiczii Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 33 (1930); JACQ: https://w.jacq.org/W19160013707; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.w19160013707

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor var. minor (Schur) Krajina, Veröff. Geobot. Inst. ETH Stiftung Rübel Zürich 10: 40 (1933)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor subsp. pseudosulcata Krajina, Spisy Přír. Fak. Karlovy Univ. 106: 43 (1930), non Drobow; JACQ: https://w.jacq.org/W19160038597; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.w19160038597

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor var. versicolor f. chrysantha (Krajina) Beldie, Fl. Rep. Soc. Rom. 12: 491 (1972)

Festuca versicolor = Festuca versicolor var. versicolor f. debilis (Krajina) Beldie, Fl. Rep. Soc. Rom. 12: 491 (1972)

Festuca versicolor - Festuca varia f. pallidula auct., non Hack.

Conservation status

In Ukraine - LC ( Onyshchenko et al. 2022).

Distribution

Pancarpathian subendemic.

Notes

Two (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/403706-1, accessed on 05.06.2023) to four (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0c5f7c03-e2bc-42b0-8fd0-7dc8fcc48491, accessed on 05.06.2023) subspecies are recognised within F. versicolor Tausch, including subsp. versicolor (occurs in the Carparpathians and rarely in the Sudetes - Kliment (1999)), subsp. Festuca versicolor dominii Krajina (endemic of the Rodna Mts. - Kliment et al. (2016)), subsp. Festuca versicolor pallidula (Hack.) Markgr.-Dann. (endemic of the Austrian Alps occurring on the rocks and screes up to 1700 m a.s.l. - Šmarda (2008), Essl et al. (2009)) and subsp. Festuca pallidula brachystachys (Hack.) Markgr.-Dann. (another endemic of the Austrian Alps occurring in the alpine habitats up to 2200 m a.s.l. - Essl et al. (2009)).

Euro+Med (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0b134a8c-3aa4-4e34-bdd2-b82875b30957, accessed on 05.06.2023) indicates the presence of F. versicolor subsp. dominii in Ukraine, based on personal communication with B. Valdés in 2003. However, no confirmed evidence of its presence in Ukraine has appeared since then. In the original description of F. versicolor subsp. dominii , Krajina (1930) mentioned the existence of this subspecies only in Rodna Mts. Šmarda et al. (2007) revised this subspecies as belonging to the non-endemic F. psammophila subsp. dominii with distribution in Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. At the same time, Šmarda et al. (2007) considered specimens of F. dominii var. margittaii Krajina belonging to F. vaginata Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd., which is distributed in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. Unfortunately, Šmarda et al. (2007) did not revise specimens from Ukraine. In Ukraine, the only discovered specimen of F. dominii var. margittaii from the Szomotor Village (Hungary) is deposited at the KW Herbarium. Therefore, the presence of F. versicolor subsp. dominii in Ukraine remains unclear.