Festuca juncifolia, St-Amans

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 : 142

73. F. juncifolia St-Amans , Fl. Agen. 40 (1821).

Laxly caespitose, with creeping rhizomes; stems 30-75 cm. Leaves usually more than | as long as stems, (0-6-)0-7-l-5 mm wide, smooth, rigid, acute; veins 7—9(—11); sclerenchyma-strands stout, mostly confluent; ribs very prominent, with numerous sclerenchymacells and dense, long hairs; sheaths closed to the mouth, usually glabrous, pinkish, decaying into fibres. Panicle 8-5-18 cm, very lax and wide, the branches scabrid. Spikelets 10-12-8 mm, pale green, densely tomentose or glabrous. Upper glume (5-)5-5- 8-3 x 1-4-2 mm, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, sometimes cibate. Lemma 7-9-9 x2-l-2-4 mm, awned. 2/2 = 56. Maritime sands. • W. Europe, from N. Spain to the Netherlands. Be Br Ga Ho Hs.