Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel.
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Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel. (1805)
Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel.
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Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel.
Annuals, (3)-9-90 cm, in dense or loose tufts, or as solitary shoots, with base of panicle usually hidden by leaf-sheath. Leaf-sheath firmly membranous, glabrous, green to purplish, or light brown. Ligule 0.2-0.5-(0.7) mm, a truncate membranous ciliate rim, sometimes asymmetrical. Leaf-blade (1.5)-3.5-20 cm × 0.3-0.5 mm diam., inrolled, or flat and 0.5-2.5 mm wide, abaxially glabrous, adaxially covered with minute silky hairs; margins and fine acute tip scabrid. Culm 5-40-(60) cm, erect, or curved upwards from decumbent base, internodes glabrous. Panicle linear, secund, curved or nodding, dense, usually ± racemose above, shortly branched below; rachis, stiff ± appressed branches and short stiff pedicels scabrid on angles. Spikelets 15-25 mm, 5-6-(7)-flowered, uppermost 1-(2) florets Ø, oblong or cuneate, green to purplish. Glumes extremely unequal, glabrous, acute; lower 0.5-1-(2) mm, ⅙ to almost ½ length of upper, 1-nerved, sub-ulate, upper (2.7)-3-4.5 mm, 3-nerved, narrow-lanceolate. Lemma 5.5-8.5 mm, faintly 5-nerved, firm, rounded, linear-lanceolate, scabrid, especially above near awn; awn 9-14.5 mm, fine, scabrid. Palea keels scabrid near apex. Anthers usually 1, rarely 2, (0.4)-0.5-0.6 mm, or 0.8-1.5-(2.5) mm. Caryopsis 3.5-4.5 × 0.4-0.6 mm.
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some of the combinations in Vulpia haven not been made in Festuca yet (e.g. Vulpia myuros var. megalura) as to November 2022. We decided to keep Vulpia as preferred name until all the combinations have been made.
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1 January 2000
20 March 2007