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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Hordeum hystrix

Citation: Roth, Catal. bot. 1:23 (1797).

Synonymy: Critesion hystrix (Roth) Á. Löve, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 95:440 (1984); ?H. geniculatum All., Fl. Ped. 2:259 (1785), nom. ambig. , Hordeum gussoneanum, Hordeum marinum

Common name: Mediterranean barley-grass.

Description:
Annual, to 20 cm high, with minutely pubescent leaf blades and glabrous or pubescent sheaths, the uppermost sheath somewhat swollen.

Spike 2-4.5 cm long, bristly; central spikelet fertile, its lemma lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, with a straight terminal awn 4-7 mm long, its 2 glumes bristle-like, but slightly widened and more or less channelled and conspicuously scabrid in the lower part, the glumes (including the awns) less than 2 cm long but always much larger than the lemmas (including the awns); lateral spikelets similar but rather larger and barren.

Distribution:  Weed of disturbed ground.

S.Aust.: NU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All mainland States except the N.T.   Native to the Mediterranean.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: only recorded in Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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