Details for: PI 665691, Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev, 9079484


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Top Name:
9079484
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Aug 2012
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Seed200 countPI 665691 2012o SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Top Name:
9079484
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Aug 2012
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
PRE 2003.
Oregon, United States

Donated
24 August 2012.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
9079484
Type: Institute identifier
Group: NRCS
Natural Resources Conservation Service

Northwest Maritime Germplasm Roemer's
Type: Donor identifier

Narrative
Northwest Maritime Germplasm Roemer's fescue is a native cool season, long-lived perennial bunchgrass with mostly basal foliage. The foliage is fine textured and densely tufted (cespitose). The plants of this germplasm are generally larger, leafier, and more robust than many other populations. The two parental populations differ in some of their morphological traits. For example, parent plants from Cummins Creek are bluer and their leaves are typically glaucous (covered with a whitish waxy coating) while parent plants from Cape Perpetua are greener. The percent of each type can vary within and among generations and intermediate types are found. Plants rarely flower until the second full growing season. Stem color ranges from yellowish green, to purple or red, turning mostly straw colored at seed maturity. The stiff, erect, smooth culms grow 87-110 cm (34-43 in) tall and the basal width is 16-17 cm (6.3-6.7 in) on average. The botanical traits for the two populations that form Northwest Maritime Germplasm Roemer's fescue fall within the taxonomic limits of Festuca roemeri var. roemeri (Wilson, 2007). The panicle (seed head or inflorescence) is loosely open to moderately contracted and 5-20 cm (2-8 in) long; branches are erect to slightly spreading. The spikelets are 9-13.5 mm (0.35-0.53 in) long with 4-6 florets. Glumes are exceeded by the upper florets. Lemma awns are 2-5 mm (0.08-0.20 in) long. Leaf sheaths are closed for less than half their length and collars are glabrous; ligules are 0.1-0.5 mm (0.004-0.02 in) long; blades are 0.5-1.2 mm (0.02-0.05 in) in diameter (Darbyshire and Pavlick, 2007). Roemer?s fescue is an allotetraploid (2n=28) and is highly cross-pollinated by wind.
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Genus:
Festuca
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Loliinae
Nomen number:

423853
Place of publication:

Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 22:23. 1985
Verified:
06/03/2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Festuca idahoensis Elmer var. roemeri Pavlick

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca idahoensis Elmer subsp. roemeri (Pavlick) S. G. Aiken

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishRoemer's fescue  1USDA, NRCS. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service's PLANTS database (on-line resource).
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Pedigree
Description:
Northwest Maritime Germplasm is the result of simple geographic selection and open crossing of two populations for one generation for the limited purpose of enhancing genetic diversity over a single wild population. Substantial genetic improvement or hybrid vigor of this germplasm is not anticipated in terms of ease of establishment, reproductive capability, and plant growth over other naturally occurring, fit populations of Roemer's fescue found within the same ecoregion.

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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CYTOLOGICPloidy LevelPloidy level as determined by nuclear DNA contentallotetraploid GRASS.PASSPORT.DATAPI 665691 2012o SD