Sporobolus virginicus
Sporobolus virginicus
Puslu çorakçimi
Perennial. Rhizomes with scaly leaf bases, long-creeping, glabrous; flowering stems erect-ascending, to 40 cm, glabrous. Leaves alternate, ± distichous-spreading, rigid, glaucous; sheaths overlapping, glabrous; ligules 1-1.5 mm. Leaf blades lanceolate, 4-8 x 0.25-0.5 cm, green, broadly acute, glabrous on abaxial surface, densely or sparsely long-pilose on adaxial surface; margins scabridulous, Inflorescence a terminal, contracted panicle, narrowly pyramidal-ovate, 3-6 cm, axis ridged, glabrous; branches ascending, 1.5 cm. Spikelets shortly pedicellate. Glumes greenish-hyaline, glabrous or minutely pubescent on back, acute, ovate; lower glume 1.8-2.2 mm, upper glume 2.5-2.8 mm. Lemma unawned, glabrous, ovate, 2 mm, greenish-hyaline, acute, l-veined, Palea similar but lanceolate, apparently unveined. Anthers oblonglinear, 1.4-1.6 mm, purple. Fl. 4-10. Sandbinder on coastal half-fixed dunes, saline flats, edge of salt marshes, nr s.I.-950 m.
S. Europe, Cyprus, W. Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Australia, tropical Africa and America.
