Gastridium ventricosum
Gastridium ventricosum
Top bekarotu
Sin: G.scabrum
Annual. Stems 3.5-40 cm, erect or geniculately ascending from base, usually tufted, simple or branched, glabrous. Leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule 1-3.5 mm; blades 2.5-21 cm x 1-4 mm, linear, acuminate, glabrous. Panicle 2-5 x 0.4-0.7 cm, contracted. Glumes sub equal, coriaceous, scabrid on keel, acute, 2.5-3 mm. Lemma 1-1.2 mm, glabrous, awnless. Palea equalling lemma. Anthers 0.7-0.8 mm. Fl. 5-7. Dry places on or near coast, abandoned fields, s.l.
N.W. Africa, Spain, S. France, Italy, Greece, Aegean, Latakia. Medit. element.
