| # Festuca of North America |

S.G. Aiken, M.J. Dallwitz, C.L. McJannet, and L.L. Consaul

### Festuca hitchcockiana E. B. Alexeev

Byull. Mosk. O-va Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol. 87: 111. 1982. Type: U.S.A. California: Santa Clara Co., 6 May 1921, A. H. Wolley-Dod 207. Holotype: K.

Notes. Alexeev (1982) suggested that this is a distinct taxon differing from F. californica Vasey in not having tufts of collar hairs and in having a longer ligule. In an extensive study of collections of F. californica, only one specimen with a longer ligule was found but in all other respects it resembled F. californica. The character, tufts of collar hairs, was found to be very variable.

We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key, which allows access to the character list, illustrations with detailed captions, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.

Cite this publication as: ‘Aiken, S.G., Dallwitz, M.J., McJannet, C.L. and Consaul, L.L. 1996 onwards. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 14th February 2019. delta-intkey.com’. Aiken, Dallwitz, McJannet, and Consaul (1997) should also be cited (see References).

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