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:
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Weed of disturbed ground.
S.Aust.: NU, YP, SL, KI, SE. All mainland States except the N.T. Native to the Mediterranean.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: only recorded in Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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