''Festuca dolichophylla'' is a species of grass which is endemic to western South America with an occurrence in

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Description

The plant is perennial and caespitose with erect culms that are long and wide. The

ligule A ligule (from "strap", variant of ''lingula'', from ''lingua'' "tongue") is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ...

is long and is going around the eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades are filiform, erect and are long and broad. They also have scaberulous, hairy, and smooth surface which is ribbed a swell. The

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

is elliptic, open, inflorescenced and is long and broad with long

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

. Spikelets are solitary with pedicelled fertile spikelets that carry 5–7 fertile florets. The main

branches are going far up and are long. It also have a barren and scaberulous rhachilla that is long. The glumes are chartaceous and keelless, have acute apexes, with only difference is in size. The upper one is long while the other one is . Fertile

lemma Lemma may refer to: Language and linguistics * Lemma (morphology), the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word * Lemma (psycholinguistics), a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered Science and mathematics * Lemma (botany), a ...

is long and is also chartaceous, lanceolate, keelless, and purple in colour. Lemma itself is muticous with acuminate apex, scaberulous surface and carries one awn. Flowers have three

stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...

s while the fruits are

caryopses In botany, a caryopsis (plural caryopses) is a type of simple fruit—one that is monocarpellate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused ...

with an additional pericarp and linear hilum.

References

dolichophylla Bunchgrasses of South America Flora of western South America Flora of Costa Rica {{Pooideae-stub