BRACHYPODIUM P. Beauv.FALSE BROME

BRACHYPODIUM P. Beauv. - FALSE BROME

Scientific Description:

Perennial herbs with or without rhizomes. Sheaths open; ligule membranous, blunt; leaf blades flat or involute, exauriculate. Inflorescence a distichous raceme with very short pedicels. Spikelets usually solitary at nodes but partly overlapping, terete, rachilla disarticulating above glumes. Glumes and lemmas several-veined, imbricate, glumes unequal and shorter than lemmas. Lemmas rounded on back, compressed, imbricate, usually with a terminal awn. Palea as long as or slightly exceeding lemma, emarginate or truncate, keel ciliolate. Lodicules spathulate, ciliolate. Stamens 3. Anthers more than 2.5 mm. Ovary with pubescent terminal appendage. Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid, tightly enveloped by lemma and palea; hilum ovate to linear-elliptic, much shorter than caryopsis.

Reference:

Davis PH (1985). Brachypodium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9: 200.

Public Description:

Brachypodium is a genus of perennial plant, commonly known as “false brome”, and is native to Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America. There are approximately 22 species in the world and 5 species (5 taxa) in Türkiye. The name of “Brachypodium” is derived from Greek words, “Brachy” meaning “short” and “podion” meaning “little foot”, and refers to the small pedicels of the spikelets. 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachypodium#cite_note-15 /,Accessed date: 14.03.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://archive.gramene.org/species/brachypodium/brachypodium_intro.html /,Accessed date: 14.03.2016.

Anonymous 3 (2016). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/genus/brachypodium/ /,Accessed date: 14.03.2016.

Cabi E, Doğan M (2012). Brachypodium P. Beauv., 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. 701.