Details for: PI 236849, Festuca altaica Trin.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca altaica Trin.

Origin:

Collected – Canada

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

22 Jan 1957

PI Assigned:

1957

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

165
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 236849 86i SD

Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca altaica Trin.

Origin:

Collected – Canada

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

22 Jan 1957

PI Assigned:

1957

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

Canada
Locality: From 2 miles east of Fort Saskatchewan.

Collector(s):

Donated

22 January 1957.
Maryland, United States
Comment: Native and naturalized forage and ornamental plants collected in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, June, July and August, 1956.
Donor(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Festuca altaica Trin.

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

16624

Place of publication:

C. F. von Ledebour, Fl. altaic. 1:109. 1829

Verified:

04/17/1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca scabrella Torr. ex Hook.

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	northern rough fescue			1	Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996-. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
English	rough fescue			1	Pavlick, L. E. & J. Looman. 1984. Taxonomy and nomenclature of rough fescues, Festuca altaica, F. campestris (F. scabrella var. major), and F. hallii, in Canada and the adjacent part of United States. Canad. J. Bot. 62:1744.

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 17 Apr 1998, from Festuca scabrella Torr. ex Hook. to Festuca altaica Trin.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory
GROWTH	Fall Recovery	Relative time of fall recovery (coded)	2 - MEDIUM	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
GROWTH	Spring Recovery	Relative time of spring recovery (coded)	2 - MEDIUM	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.132	GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf number	Relative number of leaves	2 - AVERAGE	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Position	Leaf position (coded)	1 - BASAL	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Root Type	Root type (coded)	2 - BUNCH	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Habit	Stem growth habit (coded).	1 - ERECT	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Number	Stem number (coded)	2 - AVERAGE	GRASS.W6	PI 236849 86i SD