Dasypyrum (Cosson & Durieu) T. Durand

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 : 203

54. Dasypyrum (Cosson & Durieu) T. Durand 1

( Haynaldia Schur )

Annual or perennial. Leaves flat. Inflorescence a compressed, dense, distichous spike. Rhachis bearded at the margin, disarticulating readily at the nodes below the spikelet at maturity. Spikeletsof2-4 florets, arranged singly at the nodes of the rhachis; upper floret sterile, long-pedicellate. Glumes equal, truncate, with membranous margin and with two prominent, coriaceous, cibate keels, abruptly tapered into a long, scabrid awn. Lemma broadly ovate, strongly keeled, long-awned when fertile, or acuminate; awn scabrid and sometimes cibate towards the base of the dorsal edge. Palea narrowly lanceolate, membranous.

Annual, without rhizome 1. villosum Perennial , with creeping rhizome 2. hordeaceum