Aira elegantissima
Aira elegantissima
Tül çiçeği
Annual. Stems 5-40 cm, solitary to fasciculate, erect or decumbent, somewhat geniculately ascending, 1-4-noded, slender, smooth. Leaf sheaths scabrid; ligule 1.5-3.5 mm, lanceolate, acute; blades 0.4-8 cm x 0.2-1 mm, narrowly linear, acute, usually convolute, glabrous. Panicle 3-10 x 1-7 ern, ovate, rather lax; branches 2-5 cm; pedicels 2-7.5 mm, scabrid, clavate. Spikelets 1.5-2.5 mm. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scabridulous on keel, shiny. Lemma 2/3 x glumes, brownish, scabrid, shortly hairy at base; awn of upper floret 2.5 mm, arising belowmiddle. Lower floret usually awnless, rarely awned. Anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.
1. Only upper lemma with a dorsal awn; lower lemma acute subsp. elegantissima
1. Both lemmas with a dorsal awn; lemmas bifid subsp. ambigua
