Details for: PI 278703, Festuca rubra L., REFON

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca rubra L.

Top Name:

REFON

Origin:

Collected – Canada

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

03 Apr 1961

PI Assigned:

1962

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

170
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 278703 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 rubra L.

Top Name:

REFON

Origin:

Collected – Canada

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

03 Apr 1961

PI Assigned:

1962

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Collected

Canada
Comment: Seeds pres. by Dominion Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Ottawa.

Donated

03 April 1961.
Iowa, United States

Donor(s):

USDA ARS NCRPIS

Accession Names and Identifiers

REFON

Type: Unverified name

CAN 5179

Type: Other or unclassified name

Ames 81

Type: Site identifier

Group: AMES

NC-7

Narrative

Plants hardy, vigorous, leafy; selected for hardiness and resistance to drought and disease 10

Festuca rubra L.

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

16718

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:74. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

01/08/2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Festuca rubra L. subsp. arctica (Hack.) Govor. (22 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann. (51 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. densiuscula Hack. ex Piper (2 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax (Thuill.) Nyman (6 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. litoralis (G. Mey.) Auquier (3 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. mediana (Pavlick) Pavlick (1 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. pruinosa (Hack.) Piper (0 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. rubra (44 active accession[s])

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

Autonym(s)
Festuca rubra L. f. rubra

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	creeping fescue			1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	red fescue			1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory
GROWTH	Aggressive	Aggressiveness (coded)	2 - MEDIUM	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
GROWTH	Fall Recovery	Relative time of fall recovery (coded)	1 - EARLY	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.133	GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf number	Relative number of leaves	2 - AVERAGE	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Root Type	Root type (coded)	1 - SOD	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Shatter	Amount of shattering (coded)	3 - SLIGHT	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Habit	Stem growth habit (coded).	1 - ERECT	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Number	Stem number (coded)	2 - AVERAGE	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Stem Texture	Stem texture (coded)	1 - SOFT	GRASS.W6	PI 278703 86i SD