Genus: Festuca

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Poales > Family: Poaceae

There are about 450 species worldwide (temperate regions and high altitude areas in the tropics) of which nine are native to southern Africa and one naturalised. An additional two species are cultivated in the region. 

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Festuca abyssinica Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Festuca africana
Festuca caprina
Festuca costata
Festuca dracomontana
Festuca killickii
Festuca longipes
Festuca scabra
Festuca vulpioides

Species naturalised in southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Publications

• Fish, L. 2003. Poaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1152-1194. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 

• Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated Plants of Southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.