Melica eligulata

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Blades very narrow, generally convolute except in forma planifolia Bornm., which has flat leaves c. 3 mm wide; margins scabrous.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Panicle long-pedunculate, loose, few-flowered, with erect scabrid branches. Spikelets 2-flowered; glumes greenish-violaceous, oblong-ovate, slightly unequal; lemmas of the two fertile florets oval, the lower acute, the upper obtuse; rudimentary sterile florets forming a small clavate body at the tip; anthers linear, ovary glabrous.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Caryopsis ellipsoid, smooth.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April – August.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Nahr Damour, Beirut, Nahr el-Kelb, Antélias, Nahr Ibrahim, Ras Chekka – Hamaté, Tripoli, Moukhtara, Jamhour, ʿAley, Ghosta, Bikfaya, Mrouj, Douma, Bcharré, Ehden; also in the Amanus and coastal Syria.

Native range: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Densely tufted perennial with slender, smooth, erect culms 10 – 80 cm tall; sheaths striate, glabrous; ligule extremely short or absent.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Melica eligulata

الفصيلة

نجيلية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Imperata cylindrica

Lolium rigidum

بوص جنوبي

Phragmites australis subsp. australis (Cavanilles) Trinius ex Steudel

مكانس

Piptatherum miliaceum E.Fourn., 1866