Festuca beckeri, (Hackel) Trautv.

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 : 147

121. F. beckeri (Hackel) Trautv. , Acta Horti Petrop. 9: 325 (1884).

Stems 20-60 cm, glabrous. Leaves O-3-O-7 mm wide, deciduous, smooth or slightly scabrid near apex, more or less pruinose, more or less pungent; veins 7-9; sclerenchyma forming a complete ring; ribs 3, often indistinct; sheaths brownish, often ciliate. Panicle (4-5-)6-12(-18) cm, often interrupted, the branches more or less densely hairy. Spikelets 4-5-6(-7) mm, with 4-6 florets, pale green, more or less pruinose. Upper glume 2-9-3 -5 x 1 -2-1-4 mm, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate. Lemma 2-5-3-8(~4-3) x 1 -6-1-7 mm, lanceolate, rather longacuminate; awn O-4-O-8(-l-3) mm. Sandy soils. S. part of U.S.S.R., northwards to c. 48° 30' N. Rs (W, K, E).