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genus Festuca - a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae

liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

fescue, fescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescue - grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns

Festuca ovina, sheep fescue, sheep's fescue - cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass

silver grass - of Australia and New Zealand

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& Ortunez, E.--2001--Chromosome counts in the genus Festuca L.

Festuca carpetana (Poaceae), nueva especie para la flora iberica

Species in the genus Festuca are known for complementary characteristics to those of Lolium, such as good persistence and high stress tolerance (Thomas and Humphreys, 1991; Thomas et al., 2003).

Reduction of ploidy level by androgenesis in intergeneric Lolium-Festuca hybrids for turf grass breeding

For example, in the angiosperm genus Festuca there are species in which the somatic 2n = 14 (diploid), 28 (tetraploid), 42 (hexaploid), 56 (octopioid), and 70 (decaploid), where n represents the number of chromosomes in the gametes.

Models of reticulate evolution in the coral genus Acropora based on chromosome numbers: parallels with plants

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