Aeluropus Trin

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 255-256

119. Aeluropus Trin ?

Perennials with procumbent stems usually developing as strong rhizomes or stolons; flowering stems procumbent to erect, solitary or caespitose, with many, short internodes. Leaves usually stiffly patent, flat or convolute proximally, folded distally, with a cartilaginous, often pungent apex; ligule of long hairs; leaf-sheaths overlapping, persistent on stolons and rhizomes. Inflorescence a 2-sided raceme of more or less sessile spikes; spikes with up to c. 20 closely packed, sessile, flattened spikelets arranged distichously and broadside to axis. Spikelets with (2-)4-8(-12) florets. Glumes slightly unequal, with a wide, membranous margin, mucronate. Lemma similar to glumes. Palea about equalling lemma, 2-veined, strongly keeled and enclosing the grain. Grain oblong-ellipsoid; hilum punctiform, basal.

Inflorescence 10-50x4-10 mm; lower spikes on same side of axis of main inflorescence not overlapping 1. littoralis Inflorescence 5-20x 3-8 mm; all spikes closely imbricate

2. lagopoides