The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to LOLIUM

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Glume generally = or > rest of spikelet except awns, lower lemmas hard, ± swollen at base
L. temulentum
  1' Glume < rest of spikelet, lower lemmas firmly membranous, flat to rounded at base
 
    2. Lemmas awned, plants without sterile shoots at base
L. multiflorum
    2' Lemmas awnless, plants with sterile shoots at base
L. perenne


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