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Phleum Linn., Sp. Pl. 1:59. 1753. Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 29. 1754; Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:480. 1884; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:236. 1896; Bor, Fl. Assam 5:149. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:293. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 402. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:304. 1968; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:285. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 362. 1976; Humphries in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:239. 1980.
Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat. Panicle spike-like, ovoid or cylindrical, the branches sometimes adnate to the axis. Spikelets firmly laterally compressed, breaking up above the persistent glumes; rhachilla produced or not. Glumes subequal, the margins overlapping but not connate, 3-nerved, shortly awned; lemma membranous, truncate or obtuse, 1-7-nerved, awnless, the margins not connate; palea as long as the lemma or almost so.
A genus of about 10 species in temperate regions; 4 species occur in Pakistan.
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Perennials, with non-flowering shoots at anthesis |
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Annuals, without non-flowering shoots at anthesis |
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Panicle not more than 4 times as long as broad, very rarely longer; awns up to 4 mm long, almost as long as the glumes |
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Phleum alpinum |
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Panicle over 4 times as long as broad; awns 0.2-2 mm long, not much more than one-third the length of the glumes |
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Phleum pratense |
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Glumes lanceolate, finely acuminate, hardly awned; keels stiffly ciliate |
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Phleum himalaicum |
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Glumes cuneately obovate-truncate, cuspidate; keels scabrid |
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Phleum paniculatum |
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Lower Taxa
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