Details for: PI 578732, Festuca lemanii T. Bastard, 'DURAR'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca lemanii T. Bastard

Cultivar:

'DURAR'

Origin:

Developed – Washington, United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

1965

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 578732 97i 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 lemanii T. Bastard

Cultivar:

'DURAR'

Origin:

Developed – Washington, United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

1965

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

PRE 1965.
Washington, United States

Developer(s):

Donated

1965.
Washington, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, SCS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'DURAR'

Type: Cultivar name

Narrative

Moderately tall, semierect, densely tufted fine-leaved perennial bunchgrass. More uniform, drought resistant, and shade tolerant than chewings fescue. Leaves abundant, long, narrow, lax, basal, somewhat harsh. Culms numerous, fine, average production of seed 700 pounds per acre. Adapted to dryland areas of the west and northwest in rainfall zones of 12 to 30 inches and on well drained soil under irrigation.

Festuca lemanii T. Bastard

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

317897

Place of publication:

Essai fl. Maine et Loire 36. 1809

Verified:

12/18/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca ovina L. var. duriuscula auct. pl.

Invalid Designation(s)
Festuca duriuscula auct. Eur.
Festuca longifolia auct. nonn.

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	confused fescue			1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 21 May 2010, from Festuca longifolia Thuill. to Festuca lemanii T. Bastard

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	Chromosome number	Somatic chromosome number	42	1	For a htm file on the technique used. For a Excel file of Jaussi's data.">GRASS.CHROMNUM.2008.JAUSSI	PI 578732 97i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.085		GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 578732 97i SD