Phleum echinatum

Diken itkuyruğu

Annual. Stems 11-20 cm, erect or geniculately ascending from base, simple or branched, smooth, glabrous, 1-4-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous, uppermost sometimes inflated; ligule 2.5-4 mm, obtuse; blades 2-6 cm x 1.2-2.5 mm, linear, acuminate. Panicle 1.6-2.2 x 1.1-1.5 cm, ovoid to oblong, lower spikelets reflexed. Spikelets 4-8 mm , oblong, truncate, pale to whitish-green. Glumes oblong, obtuse, margins broadly membranous, ciliate on keel, abruptly terminating in a divergent aristate point; lower glume slightly puberulent on margins; aristate points 4-7 mm. Lemma c. 2 mm, hyaline, ovate, slightly hairy on veins. Palea slightly shorter than lemma. Anthers 1.8-2.4 mm. Fl. 4-6. Calcicole, nr s.l.

Sicily, Italy, Jugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Aegean. E. Medit. element.