Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual, tufted. Leaf blade linear, expanded; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a spike-like panicle. Spikelet 2.5-5.0 mm long, laterally compressed, variously disarticulating; glumes unequal or +/- equal, shorter to +/- equal to longer than spikelet, similar, glabrous or hairy, keeled, sometimes hairy on keel, awnless; lower glume 1-nerved; upper glume 3-nerved. Floret 2-6, all bisexual or uppermost reduced; lemma 3-7-nerved, 2-lobed, keeled, usually conspicuously 1-3-awned; awn short, straight; palea 2-lobed, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, membranous. Stamens 3. Ovary usually glabrous. x= 6, 7, 13.
Distribution:
Species +/- 85, temperate regions of the world; 2 naturalised in sthn Afr., western regions of Northern Cape, Western and Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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