Bromus musadoghanii

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short. Butt sheaths purple; pubescent; persistent and investing base of culm; with reticulate dead sheaths. Culms erect; slender; 30–40 cm long; 1 mm diam. Culm-internodes mid-green; striate; distally pubescent. Leaves basal and cauline. Leaf-sheaths tubular for much of their length; pubescent. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1 mm long; white; lacerate. Leaf-blades involute; 25–40 cm long; 5 mm wide; stiff. Leaf-blade surface pubescent, or pilose.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; elliptic, or ovate; loose; equilateral; 5–7 cm long. Panicle axis pubescent. Panicle branches pubescent.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels 10–20 mm long.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 6–8 fertile florets. Spikelets oblong, or ovate; laterally compressed; 30–38 mm long; 5–8 mm wide; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent. Lower glume linear, or lanceolate; 6 mm long; 0.75 length of upper glume; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute, or acuminate. Upper glume linear, or lanceolate; 8 mm long; 0.8 length of adjacent fertile lemma; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute, or acuminate.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate, or elliptic; 11–13 mm long; keeled; 5 -veined. Lemma apex dentate; 2 -fid; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn straight; 6–7 mm long overall. Palea 8–9 mm long; 0.8 length of lemma. Palea surface pilose; hairy on margins.

FLOWER Lodicules 2. Anthers 3; 5 mm long; yellow, or orange.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: western Asia.

NOTES Bromeae. Yildrimli 2014.

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