Aegilops crassa

Boiss.
Common names: Persian goatgrass
Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 263.
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Culms 30-50 cm, erect, slightly geniculate, with few-to-many tillers. Sheaths ciliate near the throat; blades 8-25 cm long, 3-4 mm wide. Spikes (4.5) 6-10 (13) cm long, 0.5-0.7 cm wide, moniliform, with (4) 6-12 fertile spikelets; rudimentary spikelets usually absent, occasionally 1-2; disarticulation in the rachises, the spikelets falling attached to the internodes above. Spikelets 7-14 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, ovate, pubescent, with 4-7 florets, the distal 2 florets sterile. Glumes 7-10 mm, coriaceous, appressed-velutinous, 2-3-toothed; lemmas of lower spikelets 8-10 mm, toothed, usually awned; lemmas of apical spikelets awned, awns 3-8.5 cm, usually diverging. Caryopses about 7 mm, adhering to the lemmas and paleas. Haplomes DM, DDM. 2n = 28, 42.

Discussion

The single record of Aegilops crassa for North America is a specimen collected "from about the Yonkers Wood Mill [in Yonkers, New York]" in 1898. The species is native from Egypt to central Asia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Aegilops crassa"
membranous +  and scarious +
not penicillate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
toothed +, awned +  and truncate +
indurate +
Sandra M. Saufferer +
Boiss. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
basal +  and apical +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (8.5 cm85 mm <br />0.085 m <br />) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
not evident +
linear +  and linear-lanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
spikelike +
hairy +  and glabrous +
Persian goatgrass +
not branching +
geniculate +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br />) +
not woody +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
4 +  and 7 +
laterally compressed +  and terete +
shorter than to longer than the adjacent florets +
subtending +
appressed-velutinous +
2-3-toothed +
unequal +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
uncinate +
solid +  and hollow +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
rounded +
stiffly membranous +  and coriaceous +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
fleshy +  and membranous +
5 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 4 +
2 +  and 1 +
hairy +  and glabrous +
well-developed +
slightly longer +
2-keeled +
subequal +
dry +  and fleshy +
spikelike +
Introduced +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +  and 10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
moniliform +
subsessile +  and sessile +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
4mm +  and 7mm +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
not papillate +
Gramineae +
Aegilops crassa +
Aegilops +
species +
membranous +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +