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Festuca amethystina

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Internal ID UUID6440306429a81259575691
Scientific name Festuca amethystina
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 74 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Festuca amethystina f. subglabra Soó Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 17: 116 (1971 publ. 1972)
Festuca amethystina subsp. kummeri (Beck) Markgr.-Dann. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76: 326 (1978)
Festuca amethystina subsp. ritschlii (Hack.) Lemke ex Markgr.-Dann. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76: 327 (1978)
Festuca amethystina var. kummeri Beck Wiss. Mitt. Bosnien & Hercegovina 9: 449 1904
Festuca amethystina var. ritschlii Hack. Naturwiss. Verein Prov. Posen Z. Bot. Abt. 2: 48 (1895)
Festuca amethystina var. turcica Markgr.-Dann. Willdenowia 11: 205 (1981)
Festuca austriaca Hack. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 28: 349 (1878)
Festuca balansae E.B.Alexeev Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 83(5): 97 (1978)
Festuca caerulans Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 789 (1866)
Festuca mutica Schleich. ex Hack. Monogr. Festuc. Eur. : 123 (1882)
Festuca ovina subsp. capillata (Lam.) Kozlowska Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci. Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat 1925: 329 1925
Festuca ovina var. capillata (Lam.) Alef. Landw. Fl. 354 1866
Festuca valesiaca Rchb. Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 1: 27 (1834)
Festuca violacea var. mutica Kumm. & Sendtn. Flora 32: 756. 1849
Poa capillata Mérat Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris , ed. 2: 27 (1821)
Festuca ritschlii (Hack.) Patzke & G.H.Loos Jahrb. Bochum. Bot. Vereins 1: 121 (2010)
Festuca amethystina subsp. inarmata (Schur) Krajina Veröff. Geobot. Inst. Rübel Zürich 10: 29 1933
Festuca amethystina var. austriaca (Hack.) Krajina Act. Bot. Bohem. 9: 213 1930
Festuca capillata Lam. Fl. Franç. 3: 597 (1779)
Festuca ovina var. amethystina (L.) Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 488 (1900)

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Language Common/alternative name
English tufted fescue
Arabic فستوكة جمشتية
Czech kostřava ametystová
Danish regnbue-svingel
German amethyst-schwingel
Upper Sorbian ametystowa dornica
Hungarian lila csenkesz
Malayalam അലങ്കാരപ്പുല്ല്
Norwegian Bokmål grannsvingel
Polish kostrzewa ametystowa
Chinese 超级羊茅

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Name Authority First published in
Festuca amethystina subsp. amethystina Unknown
Festuca amethystina subsp. orientalis Krajina Acta Bot. Bohem. 9: 214 (1930)

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Festuca amethystina var. dijimilensis (Hack. ex Boiss.) St.-Yves Candollea 3: 408 1928

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Sow seeds at 20°C, expecting germination within 3 months without further temperature treatment.

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  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000869744
Canadensys 18492
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:402523-1
The Plant List kew-414736
IPNI 402523-1
IFPNI E4DA75A3-E3DC-F4FC-1CBC-D30B68F27560
GBIF 2705015
EOL 1294305
USDA GRIN 16641
USDA Plants FEAM3
Tropicos 25523414
INPN 98060
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:402336-1
The Plant List kew-414443
Open Tree Of Life 232595
Observations.org 117878
NCBI Taxonomy 464034
IPNI 402336-1
iNaturalist 487828
GBIF 4113725
Freebase /m/0c3w9vh
EPPO FESAH
Elurikkus 468808
USDA GRIN 16626
Wikipedia Festuca_amethystina

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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Global biodiversity data suggest allopolyploid plants do not occupy larger ranges or harsher conditions compared with their progenitors Mata JK, Martin SL, Smith TW Ecol Evol 17-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10433117
doi:10.1002/ece3.10231
PMID:37600489
An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians Novikov A Biodivers Data J 11-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10848708
doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e103921
PMID:38327305
Changes in global DNA methylation under climatic stress in two related grasses suggest a possible role of epigenetics in the ecological success of polyploids Tomczyk PP, Kiedrzyński M, Forma E, Zielińska KM, Kiedrzyńska E Sci Rep 18-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9117213
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-12125-4
PMID:35585117
Tetraploids expanded beyond the mountain niche of their diploid ancestors in the mixed-ploidy grass Festuca amethystina L. Kiedrzyński M, Zielińska KM, Jedrzejczyk I, Kiedrzyńska E, Tomczyk PP, Rewicz A, Rewers M, Indreica A, Bednarska I, Stupar V, Roleček J, Šmarda P Sci Rep 21-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8455632
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97767-6
PMID:34548532
The transferability of microsatellite loci from a homoploid to a polyploid hybrid complex: an example from fine-leaved Festuca species (Poaceae) Tomczyk PP, Kiedrzyński M, Jedrzejczyk I, Rewers M, Wasowicz P PeerJ 01-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7271882
doi:10.7717/peerj.9227
PMID:32547868
Chemical Analysis of Pollen by FT-Raman and FTIR Spectroscopies Kenđel A, Zimmermann B Front Plant Sci 31-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC7136416
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.00352
PMID:32296453
Morphometric traits in the fine-leaved fescues depend on ploidy level: the case of Festuca amethystina L. Rewicz A, Tomczyk PP, Kiedrzyński M, Zielińska KM, Jędrzejczyk I, Rewers M, Kiedrzyńska E, Rewicz T PeerJ 24-Sep-2018
PMCID:PMC6160823
doi:10.7717/peerj.5576
PMID:30280016
Effect of light, gibberellic acid and nitrogen source on germination of eight taxa from dissapearing European temperate forest, Potentillo albae-Quercetum Kołodziejek J, Patykowski J, Wala M Sci Rep 24-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5654834
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13101-z
PMID:29066749
Habitat requirements of endangered species in a former coppice of high conservation value Roleček J, Vild O, Sladký J, Řepka R 02-Mar-2017
PMCID:PMC6166777
doi:10.1007/s12224-016-9276-6
PMID:30283231
Genome Size and GC Content Evolution of Festuca: Ancestral Expansion and Subsequent Reduction Šmarda P, Bureš P, Horová L, Foggi B, Rossi G Ann Bot 24-Dec-2007
PMCID:PMC2701825
doi:10.1093/aob/mcm307
PMID:18158307

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