Aegilops triuncialis

barbed goat grass

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderPoales
5. FamilyPoaceae

Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy

Observations1,622

Observations recorded26,791

Culms tufted, 15-45 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades hairy or glabrous, up to 10 cm long, 1-2 mm wide. Spikes 3-6 cm long (excluding the awns), tapering towards the tip, with 1-2 vestigial spikelets at the base; rhachis sometimes breaking up at maturity. Fertile spikelets (3-)4-6, without any reduced spikelets above: glumes of lowest spikelet 7-10 mm long, usually with 3 teeth, 2-3 of which form awns; awns of terminal spikelet 3-6 cm long, distinctly longer than those of the lateral spikelets.

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