Details for: 14G1500054, Festuca pratensis Huds., 'Merifest'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca pratensis Huds.

Cultivar:

'Merifest'

Origin:

Origin – Belgium

Maintained:

OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Institute

Received by CRI:

1988

Improvement Status:

Advanced/improved cultivar

Life form:

Perennial

Growth class:

winter

Is Core:

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	0.2 gram		14G1500054

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca pratensis Huds.

Cultivar:

'Merifest'

Origin:

Origin – Belgium

Maintained:

OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Institute

Received by CRI:

1988

Improvement Status:

Advanced/improved cultivar

Life form:

Perennial

Growth class:

winter

Is Core:

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Developed

Developer(s):

BEL004, Government Plant Breeding Station

Donated

Donator(s):

BEL004, Government Plant Breeding Station

Accession Group(s)

Group name: Trávy
Note: Grasses
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Accession Names and Identifiers

'Merifest'

Type: Cultivar name

Festuca pratensis

Type: Full taxon

Narrative

Curator: Simona Raab, OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Institute (CZE082) raab@oseva.cz

Festuca pratensis Huds.

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

16709

Place of publication:

Fl. angl. 37. 1762

Verified:

February 12, 2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Festuca pratensis Huds. subsp. apennina (De Not.) Hegi (0 active accession[s])
Festuca pratensis Huds. subsp. pratensis (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh.

Invalid Designation(s)
Festuca elatior auct. Amer.

Common names

LANGUAGE	NAME	ALTERNATE NAME	NOTE	SEQ	CITATION
English	English-bluegrass			1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	meadow fescue			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English (Canada)	meadow fescue		Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 26.
French	fétuque des prés			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French (Canada)	fétuque des prés		Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 26.
German	Wiesenschwingel			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Chinese	cao dian yang mao	草甸羊茅		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Italian	festuca pratense			2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Portuguese	festuca-dos-prados			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cañuela de los prados			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	ängssvingel			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Korean	neoleungimuiteol			2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:100.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study
BIOLOGY	038 Winter hardiness	Field resistance.	7 - high 71 - 80 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
BIOLOGY	047 Resistance - Leaf spot (Drechslera sp., Mastigosporium sp., Heterosporium sp.)		9 - very high	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
CHEMICAL	067 Content of crude protein in dry matter	At the first cut.	2 - very low to low 6,0 - 7,5 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	001 Plant - vegetative growth habit	In the autumn of the sowing year. fig.1	9 - prostrate > 70 (°)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	007 Stem - length	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.Length including inflorescence.	6 - medium to long 851 - 1025 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	009 Stem - number of leaves	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	5 - medium 3,1 - 4	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	011 Leaf - width of flag leaf	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	4 - narrow to medium 5,1 - 6,5 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	012 Leaf - length of flag leaf	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	3 - short 101 - 140 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	013 Leaf - width of the second leaf (from the top)	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	4 - narrow to medium 5,1 - 6,5 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	014 Leaf - length of the second leaf (from the top)	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	5 - medium 181 - 220 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	017 Leaf - colour intensity	See descriptor no. 16.	5 - medium	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	020 Inflorescence - length	At beginning of flowering in the 1st year after sowing.	5 - medium 181 - 220 (mm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	028 Spring growth rate	Evaluated when the earliest variety has reached 20 cm of sward height. fig.2	5 - medium 11 - 15 (cm)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	036 Persistence - at conservation management	Living ground cover of sown species. At perennial grasses in the 3rd harvest year.	3 - low 31 - 40 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
MORPHOLOGY	037 Persistence - at frequent cutting management	Living ground cover of sown species. At perennial grasses in the 3rd harvest year.	2 - very low to low 20 - 30 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PHENOLOGY	029 Time of inflorescence emergence	Number of days from the 1st April. When beginning has been reached at 10% stems in the plot. At single plants - when the tip of 3 inflorescences is just visible. fig.3	5 - medium 47 - 53 (days)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PHENOLOGY	031 Abundance of inflorescence emergence	Estimate of number of flowering stems.m-2 at heading.	1 - none or very low < 500	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PHENOLOGY	033 Regrowth after cutting - at conservation management	Based on regrowth bulk 2 weeks after cut.	7 - high	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PHENOLOGY	034 Regrowth after cutting - at frequent cutting management	Based on regrowth bulk 1 week after cut.	7 - high	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	056 Sward - total DM yield/year		5 - medium 0,91 - 1,1 (kg.m2)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	057 Sward - percentage of the 1st cut DM yield on total yield		5 - medium 46 - 60 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	059 Sward - total DM yield/year		7 - high 1,01 - 1,15 (kg.m2)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	060 Sward - percentage of the 1st cut DM yield on total yield		5 - medium 21 - 25 (%)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	062 Sward - seed maturity	Number of days from the 1st April.	5 - medium 97 - 108 (days)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	063 Sward - seed yield	At maturity.	4 - low to medium 45,1 - 65 (g.m2)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)
PRODUCTION	065 Sward - 1000 seeds weight (TSW)	TSW - caryopsis according to the descriptor no. 25	4 - low to medium 1,51 - 2,2 (g)	1991 OSEVA PRO Ltd. Grassland Research Station (3)