Zingeria pisidica

HABIT Annual; culms solitary, or caespitose. Culms erect; slender; 4–41 cm long; 2–3 -noded. Culm-internodes smooth; distally glabrous. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1–3 mm long; obtuse. Leaf-blades 2–14 cm long; 1–3 mm wide. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; elliptic; effuse; 2–16 cm long; 2–7 cm wide. Primary panicle branches ascending; 1.5–10 cm long. Panicle branches capillary.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels cuneate; 0.8–8 mm long; glabrous.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 1.5–2.3 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; reaching apex of florets. Lower glume ovate; 1.5–2.3 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; much thinner on margins; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume ovate; 1.5–2.3 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; with hyaline margins; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; 1.5–2.3 mm long; membranous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea 2 -veined.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 0.5–0.8 mm long.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid, or ovoid; dorsally compressed; 1.5–1.6 mm long. Hilum elliptic.

DISTRIBUTION Europe: southeastern. Asia-temperate: Caucasus and western Asia.

NOTES Aveneae. Fl Turk 1997.

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