Festuca marginata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Festuca marginata (Hack.) K.Richt., Pl. Eur. 1: 96. (1890)

Basionym
- Festuca ovina var. marginata Hack., Monogr. Festuc. Eur.: 108 (1882)
Homotypic
- Festuca duriuscula var. marginata (Hack.) P.Fourn., Quatre Fl. France: 80 (1934)
- Festuca laevis subsp. marginata (Hack.) P.Fourn., Fl. Compl. Plaine Franç.: 587 (1928)
- Festuca ovina subsp. marginata (Hack.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 14: 211 (1913)

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Albania, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - France, Spain
Continental: Africa
- Regional: Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Continental: Asia-template
- Regional: Southwestern Asia
  - East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye
- Introduced into:
  - Belgium

Richter, K. 1890. Plantae Europeae. Enumeratio systematica et synonymica plantarum phaenerogamicarum in Europa sponte crescentium vel mere inquilinarum. Tomus 1. 378 pp. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. BHL Reference page. 108

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. 2006. World Grass Species – Synonymy database. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available for download as an Access file from Synonymy database. Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Festuca marginata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 December 13. Reference page.
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