Aegilops ventricosa

Tausch
Common names: Swollen goatgrass Belly-shaped hardgrass
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 263.
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Culms 25-70 cm, erect to slightly geniculate at the base, forming few-to-many tillers. Sheaths with hyaline margins, ciliate; blades 7-15 cm long, 3-6 mm wide. Spikes 5-12 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, distinctly moniliform, with 3-11 fertile spikelets; rudimentary spikelets usually absent, sometimes 1-2; disarticulation in the rachises, the spikelets falling attached to the internodes above. Fertile spikelets 7-11 mm, urceolate, with 2-5 florets, the distal 1-2 florets sterile. Glumes of fertile spikelets mostly glabrous, veins setulose, apices truncate, with a sharply acute tooth to 3 mm; glumes of apical spikelets 7-8 mm, with a central tooth or awn flanked by 2 short teeth, central awns to 0.9 cm on the lower glumes, to 2 cm on the upper glumes; lemmas of fertile spikelets 8-10 mm, adaxial surfaces velutinous, apices awned, awns 0.3-3 cm, solitary; lemmas of apical spikelets awned, awns to 4 cm. Caryopses 5-7 mm, adhering to the lemmas and paleas. Haplomes DN. 2n = 28.

Discussion

In the Flora region, Aegilops ventricosa was collected once in New Castle County, Delaware. It is native to the Mediterranean area. The Arabic name, Oum el guemab, translates as 'mother of [durum] wheat'. It occasionally forms hybrids with Triticum durum, although the two species have no haplomes in common.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Aegilops ventricosa"
membranous +  and scarious +
not penicillate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
awned +  and truncate +
toothed +, awned +  and truncate +
indurate +
Sandra M. Saufferer +
Tausch +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
basal +  and apical +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
not evident +
linear +  and linear-lanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
spikelike +
hairy +  and glabrous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Swollen goatgrass +  and Belly-shaped hardgrass +
not branching +
geniculate +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
not woody +
Wash. +, W.Va. +, Wyo. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, Tenn. +, N.Y. +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Oreg. +, Va. +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Ala. +, Kans. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Md. +, Pa. +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mo. +, Mich. +  and Ky. +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
2 +  and 5 +
laterally compressed +  and terete +
shorter than to longer than the adjacent florets +
subtending +
rounded +, ovate +  and rectangular +
unequal +
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 +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +  and 12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (?) +
moniliform +
subsessile +  and sessile +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
urceolate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
not papillate +
Gramineae +
Aegilops ventricosa +
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membranous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +