Bromus racemosus, 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 : 187

26. B. racemosus L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 114 (1762).

Stems 20-110 cm, erect or ascending, glabrous or rarely shortly pubescent. Lower leaf-sheaths hairy, the upper glabrous or with scattered hairs. Panicle 4-15 x 1-5 cm, erect, narrow, sometimes nodding in fruit; branches and pedicels slender, at least some longer than the spikelets; spikelets 10-15x 3-5 mm, lanceolate, glabrous, soon disarticulating; lowest rhachilla-segment 0-5-1 mm. Lower glume 4-6 mm, the upper 4-7 mm. Lemma 6-5-8 mm, elliptical or narrowly oblanceolate, rounded to a cuculiate apex; awn 5-9 mm, straight. Palea shorter than lemma. Anthers 1 -5-3 mm. Grain thin, flat, slightly shorter than palea. 2« = 28. Much of Europe, northwards to S. Fennoscandia, but absent from most of the U.S.S.R. Al Au Be Br Bu Cr Cz Da Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Po Rs (E) Si Su.