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Secale segetale (Zhuk.) Rozhev. in Trudy bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 6:143. 1947. Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:216. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 173. 1976.
Secale afghanicum (Vav.) Rozhev.Secale ancestrale var. afghanicum (Vav.) A. Ivan. & Jakovl.Secale cereale subsp. segetale Zhuk.Secale cereale var. afghanicum Vav.
Tufted glaucous annual; culms up to 100 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades flat or rolled, up to 20 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, scabrid. Spike 4-13 cm long (excluding the awns); rhachis fragile or sometimes tough below, shortly ciliate along the margins. Spikelets 2(-3)-flowered; glumes 9-12 mm long, shortly scabrid-ciliate on the keel, acuminate or with an awn up to 5 mm long; lemmas 8-12 mm long, with an awn 2-7 cm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: (May-) July-August.
Type locality: ?USSR.
Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan, N.W.F.P. & Gilgit); Middle East and southern USSR from the Caucasus to Central Asia.
A common weed of grain crops. 1700-2700 m.
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