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Festuca hawaiiensis

Hitchc. (1922)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Festuca

fescue

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennials, culms tufted, up to 15 dm tall.

Stems: Culms erect, stout, glabrous.

Roots: Roots fibrous.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 20-30 cm long, 3-5 mm wide. Apex attenuate to an involute point. Upper surfaces scabrous; lower surfaces smooth, base usually involute. Veins parallel. Sheaths shorter than internodes, glabrous; ligule membranous, 1-2 mm long, margins lacerate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Panicles open, erect, 30-40 cm long, the branches spreading or drooping, slender, 8-15 cm long, branching above middle, fasciculate, with ca. 5 branches in lower fascicles, the axis terete (cylindrical) and smooth in lower part, angled and scabrous in upper part; spikelets 3-5 per branch, pedicels 5-10 mm long, rachilla appressed-hispidulous; glumes narrow, glabrous, keels scabrous near apex, first glume 3-5 mm long, 1-nerved, second glume 6-7 mm long, 3-nerved. Lemmas narrow, 7-9 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, faintly 5-nerved, rounded on the back, scabrous, apex acuminate or prolonged into an awn ca. 1 mm long; palea as long as lemma and closely fitting to edges of lemma, scabrous.

Fruit: Caryopsis reddish brown; oblong to ellipsoid; strongly dorsally compressed; 4-5 mm long.

Ploidy:

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Maui Endemic
Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Mem. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 8: 115 (1922)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1547 (EM? [reported by Hillebrand in 1888, presumably from ‘Ulupalakua, but spm. likely destroyed], H); Catalán et al. 2009:57 (KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing with METPOL, LEPTAM, MYOSAN, SOPCHR, PENCLA, DESNUB PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Loo, R Not on sheet Hawaii BISH 5/26/2018
2 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information moist hollows. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN mann, h. brigham, w.t. collector number: 635 Oahu BISH
3 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN A. S. Hitchcock 14446 F 8/27/1916
4 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hitchcock, A. S. (Coll. Delessert 1923) G 8/27/1916
5 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 GH 8/27/1916
6 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Moist woods PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a.s. hitchcock 14446 MICH 8/27/1916
7 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a.s. hitchcock hitchcock 14446 MO 8/27/1916
8 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 NY 8/27/1916
9 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 NY 8/27/1916
10 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Moist woods PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hitchcock, a.s. collector number: 14446 Hawaii BISH 8/27/1916
11 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Moist woods. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 Hawaii US 8/27/1916
12 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 S 8/27/1916
13 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hitchcock, A. S. 14446 Hawaii US 8/27/2016
14 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. s. hitchcock 14446 Molokai US 8/27/1916
15 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wilkes Explor. Exped. s.n. Hawaii US 1838-00-00
16 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wilkes explor. exped. s.n. Kauai BISH 1838-08-08
17 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Mann, H. 635 BISH 2/6/1905
18 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Moist woods. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hitchcock, A. S. 14446 Hawaii US 8/27/2016
19 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN remy, m.j. collector number: 90 Oahu BISH 1851-01-01
20 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Moist woods PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hitchcock, A.S. 14446 Hawaii BISH 8/27/1916
21 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PreservedSpecimen Mann, H. Brigham, W.T. Collector Number: 635 BISH Specimen
22 Festuca hawaiiensis Hitchc. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Remy, M.J. 90 Hawaii BISH 1/24/1905
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