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Hordeum vulgare L.

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Hordeum vulgare L. (1753)
Hordeum vulgare L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
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Hordeum vulgare L.
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Hordeum vulgare

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vulgare

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Hordeum vulgare L.

Erect or somewhat spreading annual tufts. Leaf-sheath green to light brown to straw-coloured, glabrous, with colourless to sometimes purplish auricles 2.5-5 mm. Ligule 0.5-3 mm, truncate, sparsely ciliate. Leaf-blade 5-35 cm × 3-15 mm, ribs finely scabrid or only so adaxially, margins glabrous, tip finely acuminate. Culm internodes glabrous. Raceme erect or nodding; rachis tough, margins ciliate. Spikelets all ☿, all sessile, or the florets of lateral spikelets Ø and shortly pedicelled. Glumes usually equal and similar, 4-10 mm, linear-lanceolate, glabrous or short-pubescent to villous, produced to a fine scabrid awn 1.5-8 mm. Lemma of ☿ spikelets broadly ovate-lanceolate, smooth with a few prickle-teeth abaxially on outer lateral nerves near awn-base; awn very tough, scabrid. Palea ≈ lemma, keels very finely scabrid near shallowly bifid or truncate apex. Rachilla prolongation 2-4 mm, ciliate. Lodicules 1 mm, hairy, ciliate. Anthers 2.5-4 mm. Caryopsis elliptic or elliptic-obovate, white, yellow, bluish grey, reddish violet, brown or black.

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Hordeum vulgare L.
Hordeum vulgare L.

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Hordeum vulgare L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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1 January 2000
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