Festuca stenantha, (Hackel) K. Richter

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 : 144

94. F. stenantha (Hackel) K. Richter , Pl. Eur. 1: 96 (1890)

(F. halieri subsp. stenantha (Hackel) Hegi ).

Stems 15-30 cm, smooth or slightly scabrid above. Leaves (0-3-)0-4-0-7(~0-9) mm wide, smooth; veins (5—)7; sclerenchyma-strands 3, very stout; ribs 3(—5); sheaths closed nearly to the mouth, brownish, glabrous or minutely hairy, decaying into fibres; ligule short or rather short, auriculate, ciliolate. Panicle 3-5-6-5 cm, oblong, lax, the branches more or less shortly hairy. Spikelets 7-8(-9) mm, pale yellowish-green, pruinose, rarely violet-tinged. Glumes subequal, the upper 4-9-5 5 x 1-2-1-3 mm, subulate. Lemma 5-2- 5-8 x 1-5-1-9 mm, subulate-lanceolate; awn c. | as long as lemma. Anthers 1-7-2-3 mm. 2«= 14. Calcareous cliffs. • E. Alps and mountains of N. W. Jugoslavia; one locality in S. W. Alps. Au Ga He It Ju.