Polypogon monspeliensis
Polypogon monspeliensis
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Annual. Stems 6-65 cm, loosely tufted or solitary, smooth, glabrous, erect to geniculately ascending from base, 3-5-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous, upper most one sometimes inflated; ligule 2.5-10 mm; blades 0.5-15 cm x 1-7 mm, linear, acuminate, scabrid on both sides. Panicle 1-10 x 0.5-3 cm, cylindrical or oblong, sometimes lobed, greenish. Spikelets 2-2.7 mm. Glumes emarginate at apex, ciliate on margins, with a few rather stout hairs on dorsal side,especially in lower half; arista arising from sinus, c. 4-7 mm. Lemma 1-1.1 mm, glabrous, denticulate at apex, with terminal awn; awn c. 1-1.5 mm. Anthers 0.4 mm. Caryopsis 0.8-0.9 mm. 2n = 14. Fl. 4-8. Damp places, in irrigated or waste land, calcareous mountain slopes, s.l.-1200 m,
W. Europe, Mediterranean area, Caucasia, Asia. Introduced in N. America.
