Periballia

Trin.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Annual, tufted or culms solitary. Leaf blade linear, expanded or rolled; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence an open panicle; spikelets not secund, pedicelled. Spikelet small, less than 3 mm long, laterally compressed, disarticulating above glumes; glumes +/- equal, shorter than spikelet, similar, membranous, 1-3-nerved, awnless. Florets 2, bisexual, separated by an elongated internode; lemma lanceolate, rounded on back, irregularly toothed, 3-7-nerved, awnless; callus hairy; palea shorter than lemma, rounded on back. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. Caryopsis narrowly oblong, flattened on one face. x= 7 (4).
Distribution: 
Species 3, Mediterranean; 1 naturalised in sthn Afr.: *Periballia minuta (L.) Asch. & Graebn., Western Cape.
Classification: 
POACEAE

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