ABSTRACT
About 1-2 species, Mediterranean, Spain, Pakistan, northwest India, central Asia. Pooideae, Triticodae, Triticeae, or Pooideae, Triticeae, Triticinae, annual or perennial, herbaceous, internodes hollow, auricles present, ligule an unfringed membrane, leaves linear, plants bisexual, inflorescence a spike or a false spike, raceme rhachis tough, bisexual sessile spikelets 2-flowered, spikelets in pairs at each rachis node, 2 glumes unequal or subequal 1-or 3nerved, lemma rounded on the back and keeled toward the apex, lemma entire with long recurved awn, callus long and pointed, palea present, 2 free and ciliate lodicules, 3 stamens, ovary hairy, 2 stigmas, native pasture species, sometimes referred to
Elymus
, hybrids with
Triticum aestivum
L.,
Hordeum
L. and
Aegilops
L., type
Taeniatherum crinitum
(Schreb.) Nevski, see
Species Plantarum
1: 83-85. 1753,
Beschreibung der Gräser
2: 15, t. 24, f. 1. Leipzig 1769-1810,
Landwirthschatfliche Samenkunde
2: 1147. 1885 and
Fl. URSS
2: 719, tab. 50, f. 4. 1934,
Bot. Zhurn. SSSR
69(4): 511-517. 1984,
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
42(1): 81. 1984,
Bot. Zhurn.
