| Festuca orientalis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Festuca |
| Species: | F. orientalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Festuca orientalis (Boiss.) B.Fedtsch. [1] | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Festuca orientalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to Morocco, West and Central Asia to Pakistan. [1] It was first described in 1794 as Triticum subulatum. As the epithet subulata was already in use for Festuca subulata , the epithet orientalis was adopted when the species was transferred to the genus Festuca. This epithet was first used in 1846 for Nardurus orientalis, the basionym of the present name. [2] [3] Under the synonyms Loliolum orientale or Loliolum subulatum, it was the only species in the genus Loliolum. [4]