(modifié de Flore Méditerranéenne 2014) :
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Groupe IX : Panicule lâche, 2+ fleurons hermaphrodites, ligule membraneuse, arête terminale/sub-terminale/absent. Glumes de petite taille. Festuca Groupe III
Vert vif ou terne, généralement robuste.
Écologie : Pelouses sèches
(various sources, as not in Butcher)
NOTE: the French text is more complete and up-to-date
* Click for simplified key to the grasses of the Cévennes
Group IX: Loose panicle, 2+ fertile (hermaphrodite) florets, membranous ligule, absent or terminal/sub-termimal awn; short glumes:
Perennial grass, in loose clumps. Basal sheaths persistent at base of culm; with compacted dead sheaths.
Ecology UK: Not native to the UK -
France:
Distribution outside France: ?
Fleurs : Épillets de taille médiocre.
Flowers: Panicle branches smooth, or scaberulous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled, oblong; laterally compressed; 8-10 mm long. Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Fertile lemma oblong; 6-7.1 mm mid-green, or purple; without keel; 5 -veined. Anthers 3.