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Taxon: Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax (Thuill.) Nyman

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

454655

Place of publication:

Consp. fl. eur. 827. 1882

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

07-Jan-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

See other conspecific taxa:

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(=) Festuca bartherei Timb.-Lagr.
(=) Festuca diffusa Dumort.
Basionym: Festuca fallax Thuill.
(=) Festuca heteromalla Pourr.
(=) Festuca rubra subsp. bartherei (Timb.-Lagr.) P. Fourn.
(=) Festuca rubra [unranked] megastachys Gaudin, nom. inval.
(≡) Festuca rubra var. fallax (Thuill.) Hack.
(=) Festuca rubra var. grandiflora Hack.
(=) Festuca rubra var. planifolia Hack.

Common names:

flat-leaf red fescue (Source: F NAmer) - English
fétuque trompeuse (Source: F NAmer) - French

Distributional Range:

Native

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Romania
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France

Naturalized

Northern America

SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Greenland (s.)
Canada, United States

Uncertain

Europe

MIDDLE EUROPE: Hungary
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain

References:

Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). Note: = Festuca heteromalla Pourr.
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Kerguélen, M. 1999. Index synonymique de la Flore de France (on-line resource).
Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996-. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Note: = Festuca rubra "subsp. megastachya" Gaudin

Check other web resources for Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax (Thuill.) Nyman :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=454655. Accessed 9 July 2024.