Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Scleropoa Griseb.: 431 (1846); Chippindall: 50 (1955).
Description:
Annual, tufted or culms solitary, sometimes geniculate. Leaf blade rolled or expanded, glabrous; ligule a hyaline, unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a panicle with somewhat rigid, short branches, or a raceme, spike-like, linear to ovate, secund; spikelets solitary. Spikelet 5-7(-10) mm long, laterally compressed, green or purplish in colour, disarticulating above glumes; glumes +/- equal, shorter than spikelet, similar to dissimilar, keeled, membranous, awnless; lower glume 1-3-nerved; upper glume 3-5-nerved. Florets 3-10, bisexual or uppermost floret reduced and sterile; lemma overlapping at first, rounded at least towards base, glabrous, 5-nerved, awnless; palea +/- equal to lemma, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, ovate, hyaline. Stamens 3. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles distinct, plumose. x= 7.
Distribution:
Species 2, Europe and North Africa to Iran, mainly Mediterranean region, introduced elsewhere; 1 naturalised in sthn Afr.: * Catapodium rigidum (L.) C.E.Hubb., coastal districts of Western Cape.
Classification:
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