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Psilurus
Also called Fescue, Fescues
Festuca incurva is a small annual grass in the Poaceae (grass) family, native to the Mediterranean, Western and Central Asia, and Pakistan. The genus Festuca (fescues) includes many grasses grown as lawn, pasture and ornamental plants; this entry describes the species, which was once placed in the monotypic genus Psilurus.
Festuca incurva is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and Pakistan. When placed in the monotypic genus Psilurus as Psilurus incurvus, it was the only species.
Festuca incurva has a widespread distribution. It is native to southwestern Europe (the Balearic Islands, Corsica, France, Portugal, Sardinia and Spain), southeastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Crete, Romania, Sicily, European Turkey and the former Yugoslavia), North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia), Western Asia (Afghanistan, Cyprus, the East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine and Turkey), the Caucasus, Crimea, Pakistan, and Central Asia (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). It has been introduced into Germany and parts of Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Festuca incurva by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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