Poaceae Barnhart
Festuca rubra L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 74 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Europe sterilibus siccis."
Hooker, J.D. (1884), The Student's Flora of the British Isles Edn. 3: 497 [basionym]
basionym of: Festuca ovina subsp. rubra (L.) Hook.f. legitimate
(1894), Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture 7: 91 [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 191 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 547 [secondary reference]
common name: Red Fescue [n/a]
Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 102 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Festuca duriuscula L. legitimate vernacular name: Creeping Fescue [n/a] vernacular name: Red Fescue [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 46 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Festuca duriuscula L. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92
Alexeev, E.B. (1987), Festuca L. et Genera Proxima (Poaceae) in Australia et Tasmania. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 24: 10 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 961 [secondary reference]
common name: Red Fescue [n/a]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 197 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Festuca ovina subsp. rubra (L.) Hook.f. legitimate common name: Red Fescue [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 400-401 [secondary reference]
common name: Creeping Fescue [n/a] common name: Red Fescue [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Festuca rubra L. subsp. rubra legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Festuca ovina subsp. rubra (L.) Hook.f. legitimate misapplication: Festuca duriuscula L. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92
  • APC Comment: Treated as Festuca rubra subsp. rubra in NSW.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Weiller, C.M., Walsh, N.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Festuca. Flora of Australia 44A: 281-282 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Festuca duriuscula L. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 126