Family |
Poaceae
Polypogon monspeliensis
(L.) Desf.
Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.
First published in Fl. Atlant. 1: 66 (1798).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, p. 68, Pl. XXI, 9; 1966)
Description
Synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L., verified in Kew and cited by Mouterde.
Life-form & habit: Annual grass with solitary or clustered, hairless, slightly striated stems, erect or bent at the base and ascending. Height varies with habitat from 10–20 cm to about 1 m.
Leaves: Sheaths rough; ligule about 1 cm long, blunt and often torn. Leaf blades up to 30 cm long, grooved and rough on both surfaces.
Inflorescence & flowers: Long-stalked, very pale-green, oval to oblong panicle, up to 13 × 4 cm, more or less lobed. Numerous clustered branches bear single-flowered spikelets on short, rough, widened stalks. Glumes nearly equal, linear-oblong, about 2 mm long, whitish with a green vein, hairy and ciliate near the base; each ends in an almost straight awn up to 7 mm. Lemma translucent with a short awn; palea two-veined and two-toothed.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: March–June.
Habitat & elevation: Damp places and sites flooded in winter.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Saida, Beirut and Tripoli.
Syrian distribution: Aleppo and east of Aleppo, Tell Bouada, Homs, Raqqa–Tell Abiad, Damascus, Ateibe, Chabaa, Soueida, Qaryatein, Palmyra, Aqraba, Arak, Nemara and southwest of Deir ez Zor.
Recorded locations: Kornet Chehwan.
Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qinghai, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Xinjiang.
Introduced into: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil South, British Columbia, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Namibia, Nebraska, Nevada, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Primorye, Queensland, Québec, Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon.