Trisetum paniceum, (Lam.) Pers.

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 : 224

18. T. paniceum (Lam.) Pers. , Syn. Pl. 1: 97 (1805)

( T. neglectum (Savi) Roemer & Schultes ).

Caespitose annual, with basally geniculate to erect, glabrous stems 2O-45(-65) cm. Leaves flat and thin, the lower up to 15(-20) cm x 6 mm, moderately villous like the sheaths. Panicle 2-12(-17-5) cm, cylindrical, narrowly ovoid or narrowly pyramidal, usually yellowish, dense but often lobed. Spikelets 3-5-5 mm, with florets slightly exceeding or equalling the glumes. Glumes largely hyaline, villous to glabrous with scabridulous keels, the upper broadly ovate, the lower much narrower, slightly shorter. Rhachilla with very short appressed hairs. Lemma 1 -3-3-7 mm, villous to smooth, acute or slightly bicuspidate; callus glabrous; awn 1 -5-4 mm, inserted in upper part of lemma, straight or slightly curved, scabridulous. Anthers 0-8-1 -6 mm. 2« = 14. Roadsides, walls and cultivated ground. W. & C. Mediterranean region, Portugal. BI Co Ga Hs It Lu Sa Si.