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Phleum montanum
K.Koch
Phleum montanum K.Koch
First published in Linnaea 21: 383 (1848).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, pp. 64–65, Pl. XXI, 3; 1966)
Description
Life-form & habit: Perennial grass with a short, fibrous rhizome. Fertile stems solitary, surrounded at the base by several sterile shoots, sometimes violet, reaching 1 m tall.
Leaves: Sheaths and blades ridged and rough, green or tinged violet, with whitish margins. Ligule membranous, triangular, about 2 mm long.
Inflorescence & flowers: Dense, spike-like cylindrical panicle, usually projecting beyond the upper sheath, green or violet, 6–15 cm long. Glumes oblong-linear, three-veined, fringed with hairs along the keel and ending in a short, rough awn. Lemma and palea blunt, about one-third the length of the glumes.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: May–September.
Habitat & elevation: Wooded places, from 800 m upwards.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Ain Qaa, Ain Zehalta, Bikfaya, Salima, Qornayel–Salima, Mayrouba, Beskinta, towards Afqa, Towmat Jezzine, Jabal Niha, Mdeireje, Baidar Pass, Falougha, Sannine, Afqa, Hasroun, Ban–Mar Elias, Cedars of Hadeth and the road to Yanta.
Syrian distribution: Chatha Pass, Ain Haramiye, Kizil Dagh, south of El Ourdou and Wadi el Qarn.
Recorded locations: Sannine and Kfertay.
Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Iran, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Transcaucasus, Türkiye and Ukraine.