Milium pedicellare

HABIT Annual; culms solitary. Culms erect; 10–25 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 4–8 cm long; 2–4 mm wide; flaccid. Leaf-blade apex acute.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; ovate; effuse; 7–15 cm long; 7–15 cm wide. Primary panicle branches spreading; 2 -nate; 5–9 cm long.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels filiform; 10–12 mm long; scabrous.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 3 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume elliptic; 3 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; much thinner above; without keels; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface asperulous. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume elliptic; 3 mm long; 1.2 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; much thinner above; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume surface asperulous. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; dorsally compressed; 2.5 mm long; indurate; shiny; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea 1 length of lemma; indurate; 2 -veined; without keels. Palea apex obtuse.

FLOWER Lodicules 2. Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid; dorsally compressed. Embryo 0.2 length of caryopsis. Hilum punctiform.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: western Asia.

NOTES Aveneae. Fl Iraq.

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