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{{Short description|Species of grass}}
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|genus = Festuca
|species = polycolea
|authority = Stapf
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'''''Festuca polycolea''''' is a species of [[Poaceae|grass]] which is endemic to [[India]].<ref name=kew>{{cite web|url=http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp04788.htm|author1=W.D. Clayton |author2=M. Vorontsova |author3=K.T. Harman |author4=H. Williamson |title=Festuca polycolea|publisher=GrassBase|work=The Board of Trustees and [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Royal Botanic Gardens]]|place=[[Kew]]|date=November 16, 2012|accessdate=December 7, 2013}}</ref>

==Description==
The plant is [[perennial plant|perennial]] and caespitose with {{convert|5|–|30|cm}} long [[culm (botany)|culms]] that are erect. The [[ligule]] is {{convert|1|–|2.5|mm}} long and is going around the eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades are filiform, conduplicate, and are {{convert|3|–|8|cm}} long and {{convert|1|mm}} broad with hairy surface. The [[panicle]] is ovate, open, [[inflorescence]]d and is {{convert|2|–|6|cm}} long with scabrous axis.<ref name=kew/>

[[Spikelet]]s are oblong and solitary with [[pedicel (botany)|pedicelled]] fertile spikelets that carry 3–5 fertile [[floret]]s. The [[chaff|glumes]] are chartaceous, lanceolate, and keelless, have acute apexes, with only difference is in size. The upper one is {{convert|4|mm}} long while the other one is {{convert|3|mm}}. Fertile [[lemma (botany)|lemma]] is {{convert|4|–|5|mm}} long and have the same visual appearance as the glumes while the lemma itself have scaberulous surface and acute apex. The main lemma carries an [[awn (botany)|awn]] that is {{convert|2|–|4|mm}} long and also have a [[palea (botany)|palea]] with two [[vein (botany)|veins]]. [[Flower]]s have three [[stamen]]s while the [[fruit]]s are [[caryopsis|caryopses]] with an additional [[pericarp]] and linear [[Hilum (biology)|hilum]].<ref name=kew/>

==References==
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[[Category:Festuca|polycolea]]
[[Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent]]

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