Zingeria trichopoda

HABIT Annual. Culms erect; 10–20 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 3–10 cm long; 1–2 mm wide.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; ovate; effuse; 4–15 cm long; 3–10 cm wide. Panicle branches capillary.

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

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 1.5–1.8 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; reaching apex of florets, or exceeding apex of florets. Lower glume ovate; 1.5–1.8 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume ovate; 1.5–1.8 mm long; 1–1.5 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; 1.5 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; with clavate hairs. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea 2 -veined. Palea surface pubescent; hairy on back; with turgid hairs.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; oblong; dorsally compressed. Embryo 0.2 length of caryopsis. Hilum elliptic.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: Caucasus, western Asia, and Arabia.

NOTES Aveneae. Fl Iraq 1993.

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