Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . s falcate, without hairson margins; ligules mm long membra-nous, sometimes coriaceous, apex truncate; blades20-25 x (-l) cm, flat, green, abaxially sca-brous. Panicles 15-20 x 3-5 cm, contracted, narrow;branches scabrous. Spikelets 9-11 mm long, florets5 or 6; rachilla scabrous; glumes ^4 mm long,lanceolate, membranous, sometimes coriaceous,green, glabrous, apex acuminate; lower mm long, 1-nerved; upper glumes mmlong, 3-nerved; lemmas mm long, 5-nerved,membranous to coriaceous, lanceolate, green
Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . s falcate, without hairson margins; ligules mm long membra-nous, sometimes coriaceous, apex truncate; blades20-25 x (-l) cm, flat, green, abaxially sca-brous. Panicles 15-20 x 3-5 cm, contracted, narrow;branches scabrous. Spikelets 9-11 mm long, florets5 or 6; rachilla scabrous; glumes ^4 mm long,lanceolate, membranous, sometimes coriaceous,green, glabrous, apex acuminate; lower mm long, 1-nerved; upper glumes mmlong, 3-nerved; lemmas mm long, 5-nerved,membranous to coriaceous, lanceolate, green, apexscabrous, mucronate; paleas almost as long as thelemma, scabrous on margins and keels; lodiculeslanceolate, acuminate; anthers mm long;ovary apex glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaf blade anatomy.—Cross-sections withnumerous vascular bundles, without ribs above;sclerenchyma under both abaxial and adaxial epi-dermis, discontinuous, extending to the vascularbundles forming girders; bulliform cells present. Festuca in South American Paramos 45. -10 -85 -80 -75 -70 -65 -60 -55 Figure 17. Distribution of Festuca dichoclada (•), F. arundinacea (A), and F. venezuelana (?). Observations.—Modern authors generallytreat this taxon as a separate genus, Schedonoruspratensis (Soreng et al. 2003). Distribution and habitat.—This species isintroduced from the Europe and sporadically cul-tivated at an altitude around 3000 m. Additional specimens examined. : Riobamba, Sodiro (US). Pich-incha: Quito-Santa Catalina, 00°22S, 78°3rW,Vivar & Marin 1306 (LOJA); Canton Tabacundo-Picalqui, 2750 m, Acosta-Solis 16268 (US). 14. Festuca dichoclada Pilg., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37:514. 1906. (Fig. 17). Festuca quadridentatavar. dichoclada (Pilg.) , Candollea3: 265. 1927. Type: Peru. Ancachs (Ancash),in declivibus montium Cordillera blancasupra Caraz in faucibus umbrosis fruticibusaltis obtectis, 3300-3600 m, 9 Jun 1903,A. Weberbauer 3230 (holotype: B!; isotypes:
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