Festuca pseudoduraSteud.

WFO wfo-0000871707 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-09 / obs. 92622367
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99817939
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81834767
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92615081
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92615337
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92622538
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. g Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99818044
Festuca pseudodura, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81834670

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Festuca pseudodura is native: Austria, Italy, Switzerland AustriaItalySwitzerland
Native distribution of Festuca pseudodura, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Italy ITA
Switzerland SWI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Festuca dura Host
  • Festuca dura var. pubifolia J.Vetter
  • Festuca halleri subsp. dura Hegi
  • Festuca tauricola J.Vetter
  • Festuca tauricola var. pilosa J.Vetter

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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