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Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Annual, perennial herb.
Stem: ascending to erect, 5–100 cm.
Leaf: basal to cauline; ligule membranous to translucent; blade flat.
Inflorescence: erect to pendent, panicle-like, open.
Spikelet: ± pendent, ± laterally compressed, subconic to ovoid; glumes subequal, papery, rounded at tip, 3–9-veined; florets 3–19; axis breaking above glumes and between florets; lemma width > length, papery to translucent, rounded at tip, 7–9-veined; palea ± = lemma.
10–12 species: Eur, n Africa. (Greek: a kind of grain) [Snow 2007 FNANM 24:612–614] Briza media L., a cultivated per with ligule < 0.5 mm and spikelets 4–6 mm, best treated as waif in CA.
1. Spikelets 10–19 mm ..... B. maxima
1' Spikelets 2–5 mm ..... B. minor
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