Vulpia fontquerana, Melderis & Stace

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

7. V. fontquerana Melderis & Stace , Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 7: 782 (1968).

Stems 4-30 cm, slender, erect to decumbent. Inflorescence an erect raceme or sparingly branched panicle 2-5-7 cm, with upto 5 spikelets atlower nodes, usually exserted fromuppermost leaf-sheath; pedicels 2-4 mm, slightly dilated distally, erect. Spikelets 6-10 mm (excluding awns), disarticulating below each fertile floret; proximal 1—2(—3) florets fertile; distal 2-3 florets much smaller and sterile. Lower glume 2-4 mm, i-4 as long as upper; upper glume 4-8 mm, with awn up to 4 mm. Lemma 4-8 mm, with awn usually 3-6 times as long, glabrous or minutely scabrid; callus 1-1-5 mm, pointed, antrorsely hispid, about as long as rhachilla-segments. Anthers 3, 0-5-0-8 mm, slightly exserted at anthesis. Ovary glabrous. In = 14. Fixed, open dunes in Pinus pinea forest. • S. W. Spain (near Sanlücar de Barrameda, prov. Cadiz). Hs.