A revision of Festuca (Poaceae: Loliinae) in South American paramos
By: Daniel Stancík and Paul M. Peterson.
Contributors: Peterson, Paul M.
Series: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium -- 56.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Fescue -- South America -- Classification; Fescue -- South America -- Identification
Genres: Classification.; Identification.
Description: Stancik, Daniel and Paul M. Peterson. A revision of Festuca (Poaceae: Loliinae) in South American paramos. Smithsonian Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Volume 56, 184 pages (including 97 fi gures). A taxonomic revision of Festuca L. for the South American paramos of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru, and Venezuela is given. Fifty-six species and six subspecies of Festuca are recognized in the study area. Fifty-three species are native to the fl ora region and three are introduced and cultivated. Keys for determining the species, a classifi cation, synonymies, descriptions, leaf anatomical descriptions, observations, distribution and habitat, specimens examined, illustrations, and leaf surface micrographs are provided. One species: F. turimiquirensis Stancik & P.M. Peterson, and one subspecies: F. tolucensis subsp. culata Stancik & P.M. Peterson, are newly described. The following three names were lectotypifi ed: Bromus caldasii Kunth [=Festuca caldasii (Kunth) Kunth], Festuca fratercula Rupr. ex E. Fourn. (=Festuca amplissima Rupr. subsp. amplissima), and Festuca ovina subvar. jamesonii St.-Yves (=Festuca glumosa Hack. ex E.B. Alexeev).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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