Polypogon maritimus
Polypogon maritimus
Ssp maritimus: Kum hıtırı; Ssp subspathaceus: Yalı hıtırı
Annual. Stems 2-42 cm, usually tufted, sometimes solitary erect or geniculately ascending from base, slender, smooth, glabrous, 3-4-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous and smooth, usually uppermost inflated; ligule to 7 mm; blades 0.5-9 cm x 0.5-5 mm, linear, acuminate, scabrid. Panicle 1-7 x 0.5-1.7 cm, oblong, sometimes lobed, often purple-tinged. Spikelets 2-3.2 mm. Glumes 2-fid at apex,lobes acute to acuminate, to 1.5 mm, pilose on margins, covered with rather stout hairs on dorsal side, especially in lower half; arista arising from sinus, 6-7 mm. Lemma 1 mm, awnless. Caryopsis 0.7-0.9 mm.
1. Callus of glumes 0.1-0.2 mm; spikelets 1.7-2.2 mm subsp. maritimus
1. Callus of glumes 0.8-1.5 mm; spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm subsp. subspathaceus
