Citation: Moench, Meth. 201 (1794).

Derivation: After the French biologist, J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, 1744-1829.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual; leaf blades flat; ligule long, glabrous.

Panicle unilateral; spikelets compressed, the fertile ones with 1 bisexual floret; the rhachilla prolonged and bearing a small empty awned lemma or one reduced to an awn; glumes subequal, acuminate, 1-nerved, persistent, as long as the florets; fertile lemma broader, 4-nerved, bearing a fine straight awn just below the terminal notch; sterile spikelets intermixed with the others and consisting of 2 acute glumes and several short truncate awnless empty lemmas arranged in 2 rows above them.

Distribution:  1 species from the Mediterranean.

Biology: No text

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