AEGILOPSL.GOAT-GRASS

AEGILOPSL. - GOAT-GRASS

Scientific Description:

Annuals, usually tufted and geniculate at base. Leaf sheath and blade hairy or glabrous; ligule membranous, short. Inflorescence a spike with at least the uppermost spikelet awned, whole inflorescence shed in fruit as a unit or breaking up at the rachis nodes into separate spikelets; vestigial spikelets 1−4 (rarely absent). Spikelets sessile, laterally compressed, with 2−8 florets. Glumes rounded on back, leathery, 6−many-veined, upper margin subtruncate, subentire, muticous, toothed or 1−5-awned. Lower lemmas thin below, hardened and veined above, awned or toothed. Palea 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, hairy. Stamens 3. Caryopsis compressed, ovate, elliptic or oblong, with a ventral groove throughout its length; hilum short; terminal appendage pubescent.

Reference:

Davis PH (1985). Aegilops L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9: 233−234.

Public Description:

Aegilops is a genus of annual plants, known as “goat-grass”, is native to Eurasia and North America. There are approximately 25 species in the world and 17 species (20 taxa) in Türkiye. The genus name “Aegilops” comes from the Greek word “aegilos” meaning “a herb liked by goats”. In prehistoric period, they were used as a wild food source.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegilops/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Poaceae/Aegilops/,Accessed date: 03.03.2016.

Uzunhisarcıklı E M (2012). Aegilops L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 675–677.