Bromus hordeaceus
Bromus hordeaceus
Ssp hordeaceus: Başakotu; Ssp molliformis: Kılcanotu; Ssp thominii: Kum kılcanı
Annual. Stems to 1 m, erect, ascending or procumbent. Leaf blades to 20 cm x 3-6 mm, hairy; at least lower sheaths hairy. Panicle 1-15 cm, ovoid or oblong-elliptic, ± dense, sometimes with tightly congested spikelets; pedicels shorter than spikelets or spikelets subsessile. Spikelets 8-25 x 2-6 mm, ovate- lanceolate. Glumes lanceolate, lower 2-6 mm, upper 4-9 mm. Lemma 6.5-11 x 2-5 mm, bluntly angled, chartaceous; awn 5-8 mm, usually straight, erect, sometimes divaricate or spreading, Palea shorter than lemma. Anthers 0.2-1.5 mm.
1. Lemma 6.5-7.5 mm; panicle short , dense but with rather few spikelets; awn terete, slender, straight or slightly divaricate at least in fruit; stem often ascending or procumbent subsp. thominii
1. Lemma 8-11 mm; panicle usually longer than 3 cm, dense or fairly lax, often with many spikelets; awn terete, erect or flattened, twisted and divaricate or spreading; stem usually erect
2. Awn terete, erect; panicle lax or dense, spikelets on clearly visible pedicels subsp. hordeaceus
2. Awn flattened, eventually basally twisted, and divaricate or spreading; panicle dense, spikelets tightly congested on very short pedieels or subsessile subsp. molliformis
