Alopecurus lanatus
Alopecurus lanatus
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Caespitose perennial. Stems 3.5-30 cm, erect or slightly curved, somewhat geniculate at node, rather slender, glabrous and smooth in upper part, white-tomentose below, 1-noded, with a rather thick black cylindrical rootstock. Leaf sheaths very close to base of stem, inflated, tomentose; ligule 1.5-2.5 mm, acute; blades mostly basal, 1-5.5 x 2-3 mm, linear, obtuse or mucronate, usually convolute, densely white-tomentose all over. Panicle 0.8-1.5 x 0.8-1.3 cm, ovoid-globose. Spikelets 4.5-6.2 mm. Glumes lanceolate, terminating in an aristate point c. 1-1.5 mm, covered by dense hispid hairs, slightly connate at base. Lemma 2.4-3.5 mm, obliquely truncate at apex, slightly ciliate, especially at apex, with an awn, margins slightly connate at base; awn 6.5-11 mm, attached to lower 1/5-1/7 of lemma, geniculate and twisted in lower half. Palea absent. Anthers 1.8-2.7 mm, cream. Fl. 5-8. Scree and rock crevices on high mountain slopes, 1500-3450 m
Endemic. E. Medit. element.
