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Parapholis incurva (Linn.) C.E. Hubbard in Blumea, Suppl. 3:14. 1946. Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W.Pak. 2:317. 1959; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:266. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:246. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 529. 1976; Tutin in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:293. 1980.
Aegilops incurva Linn.Aegilops incurvata Linn.Lepturus incurvatus (Linn.) Trin.Lepturus incurvus (Linn.) DrucePholiurus incurvatus (Linn.) Hitchc.Pholiurus incurvus (Linn.) Schinz & Thell.
Tufted annual; culms 2-25 cm high, erect or prostrate and ascending. Leaf-blades flat or convolute when dry, 0.5-3(-8) cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scabrid above; uppermost sheath inflated. Spikes solitary, rigid, curved or rarely straight, 1-10 cm long, cylindrical, the joints deeply hollowed on one side, breaking horizontally beneath each spikelet at maturity. Spikelets 4-8 mm long, the lowest nearly always included on the uppermost sheath; glumes equal, as long as the spikelet, lanceolate-acuminate, the keel not winged; lemma with one side adjacent to the rhachis; anthers 0.5-1 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May.
Type: Orient, Tournefort..
Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan, Punjab & N.W.F.P.); Middle East and the Mediterranean region; coast of West Europe; introduced in North and South America and Australia.
Curved Sea Hard-grass is mostly a plant of sandy, rarely saline soils near the sea and maritime rocks, but it also occurs around ports and as a weed in cultivated areas, usually below 1300 m, but at 2000 m in Quetta.
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