Agrostis cypricola

HABIT Perennial. Rhizomes elongated. Stolons absent. Culms erect; 8–40 cm long; 2–5 -noded. Culm-internodes smooth; distally glabrous. Lateral branches lacking. Leaf-sheaths striately veined; smooth; glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 4–5 mm long; entire, or lacerate; obtuse. Leaf-blades ascending; 15–20 cm long; 2–4 mm wide; glaucous. Leaf-blade surface ribbed; scabrous; rough on both sides. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open, or contracted; linear, or lanceolate, or oblong; dense; 5 cm long; 1.5–2 cm wide. Primary panicle branches whorled at most nodes; 1–1.5 cm long. Panicle branches scaberulous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels filiform; terete.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; laterally compressed; 2 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma; shiny; gaping. Lower glume lanceolate; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein scaberulous. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 1.3 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein scaberulous. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; 1.5 mm long; hyaline; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex truncate; mucronate. Palea oblong; 1 mm long; 0.66 length of lemma; hyaline; 2 -veined.

FLOWER Lodicules 2; lanceolate; membranous. Anthers 3; 1 mm long. Stigmas 2.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum linear.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: western Asia.

NOTES Aveneae. Fl Cyprus 1997.

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