Bromus secalinus, L.

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 : 186

22. B. secalinus L. , Sp. Pl. 76 (1753) .

Stems 20-120 cm, erect, usually stout. Leaf-sheaths usually glabrous or the lower very obscurely hairy, rarely with uniform, fine, stiff hairs. Panicle 5-20 cm, lax, often secund and nodding after flowering; spikelets 12-20 mm, glabrous or hairy, lanceolate at first, later ovate; florets imbricate at first, erecto-patent after anthesis. Glumes and lemma corneous, obscurely veined. Lemma 6-5-9(-10) mm, shallowly emarginate at the apex, or entire, the inrolled margins revealing the rhachilla; awn up to 8 mm, straight or flexuous, sometimes absent. Palea equalling lemma. Anthers 1-2 mm. Grain 6-9 mm, longitudinally inrolled at maturity. 2n = 28. S. & S.C. Europe; widely naturalizedfurther north. *Az Bu Co?Cr Ga Gr Hs Hu It Ju *Lu Rm Rs (W) Sa Si [Au Be Br Cz Da Fe Ge He Ho No Po Rs (N, B, C) Su].