''Festuca matthewsii'', also known as Matthew's fescue, is a species of grass in the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. It is native to the South Island of New Zealand. It is perennial and mainly grows on subalpine or subarctic biomes. ''Festuca matthewsii'' was first described by Eduard Hackel in 1903 as ''Festuca ovina'' subsp. ''matthewsii'', and identified as a species by

Thomas Cheeseman Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 184515 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs). Biography Che ...

in the posthumously released second edition of the ''Manual of the New Zealand Flora'' in 1925. Accepted Infraspecifics: * ''Festuca matthewsii'' subsp. ''aquilonia'' Connor * ''Festuca matthewsii'' subsp. ''latifundii'' Connor * ''Festuca matthewsii'' subsp. ''matthewsii'' * ''Festuca matthewsii'' subsp. ''pisamontis'' Connor

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matthewsii Grasses of New Zealand Endemic flora of New Zealand Taxa named by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman Taxa named by Eduard Hackel {{Poaceae-stub