Dactylis glomerata
Dactylis glomerata
Ssp glomerata: Domuzayrığı; Ssp hispanica: Kıllı domuzayrığı; Ssp lobata: Tike domuzayrığı
Coarse stiff caespitose perennial with short praemorse rhizome. Stems 15-100 cm or more, erect or decumbent, with 2-3 nodes; vegetative shoots ± strongly compressed. Ligule 2-8 mm, acute or lacerate. Leaf blades narrowly linear, 3-30 cm x 0.5-5 mm, glaucous or dull green, scabrid. Panicle 1-18 cm, with or without distinct branches to 7 cm, often reduced to an ovoid to oblong head of subsessile fascicles of spikelets. Spikelets 5-9 mm, crowded in fascicles, 2-5-flowered. Glumes lanceolate to ovate, long-acute, lower 3.5-6 mm. Lemma lanceolate, lowest 4-6 mm, acuminate or emarginate at apex, rnuticous or with a mucro or short subterminal awn to 1.5 mm. Anthers 1.8-4 mm.
1. Lemma emarginate at apex, with short, stout awn or mucro in fissure subsp. hispanica
1. Lemma acuminate at apex
2. Inflorescence subsecund with filiform panicle branches; leaves flaccid subsp.lobata
2. Inflorescence not secund, with stouter panicle branches; leaves not flaccid subsp. glomerata
