Festuca puccinellii, Pari.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 139

61. F. puccinellii Pari. , Fl. Ital. 1: 440 (1850)

( F. violacea subsp. nigricans (Hackel) Hegi ).

Rather densely caespitose; stems 30-50 cm, usually glabrous above. Basal leaves 0-25-0-6 mm wide; veins 5; ribs 3; sclerenchyma-strands 7, slightly unequal in width, rather stout; cauline leaves wider, with 7-9 veins; sheaths closed to the mouth, scarcely decaying into fibres. Panicle 6-9 cm, rather lax, the branches glabrous or hairy. Spikelets (7-8-)8-10 mm, dark violet or yellowish-green. Upper glume 3-3-6 x 0-9-1-7 mm, acuminate. Lemma (5-8-)6-7-1 x 1-6- 2-5 mm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, smooth or slightly scabrid above; awn (2-)2-4-4-7 mm. Anthers more than i as long as palea. Ovary rarely glabrous. Stony mountain grassland, 1050-2700 m. • Alps and Jura. Au Ga Ge He It.