Saccharum ravennae
Saccharum ravennae
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Robust caespitose perennial with stout, strongly ribbed glabrous stems to 3 m or more. Leaves with flat blades, lowest to 1 m excl. sheaths, with conspicuous pale midrib, with long barbed yellowish-brown hairs near base, otherwise scabrid especially on margins. Panicle 25-60 x 2-10 cm, ± dense, ± lobed, sericeous-villous, greyish-white or with a purplish tinge. Sessile and pedicellate spikelets similar, c. 4.5-6 mm; pedicel of pedicellate spikelets c. 1.5 mm. Glumes lanceolate, greenish to purplish, acuminate, subequal, without a hyaline apex, lower one attenuate, hirsute on back or glabrous. Lemmas hyaline, upper produced into a terminal awn 3-6 mm. Callus hairs 3-6 mm, very silky. Fl. 9-10. Damp places, to 915 m.
Mediterranean area, Bulgaria, Arabia, S.W.Asia E. to Afghanistan, N. India.
