Vulpia

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 : 155

Sect, Vulpia .

Annual. Florets cleistogamous or the anthers just exserted at anthesis; anthers 1(—3), O-3-O-8(-l-8) mm. Inflorescence a panicle, rarely subracemose. Spikelets disarticulating below each fertile floret; pedicels not or scarcely dilated; spikelets with most florets fertile or with an apical group of sterile but not smaller florets.