Festuca hystrix, Boiss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 145

100. F. hystrix Boiss. , Elenchus 89 (1838).

Densely caespitose. Stems 8-33 cm, smooth or slightly scabrid above. Leaves (0-4-) 0-5-0-6(-0-7) mm wide, often very short and curled, glaucous, smooth or scabrid, abruptly contracted to the acute, flat apex; veins 3; sclerenchyma forming a complete ring of 3-4 rows of cells; rib 1, with several sclerenchyma-cells above; sheaths closed to the mouth, silvery, hyaline, sometimes decaying into fibres; ligule 0-4-0-8 mm. Panicle 1 -5-3-5 cm, dense, with few spikelets, the branches scabrid. Spikelets (5-7-)6-2-7 mm, with 3-5 florets, glaucous, slightly violet-tinged. Upper glume 3 -8-4 x 1 -2 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, scabrid above. Lemma 3-9-4-3 x 1 -5- 1 -7 mm; awn as long as lemma. Calcareous rocks and screes, 1300-2300 /n. C. & S. Spain. Hs.