Bromus japonicus
Bromus japonicus
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Annual. Stems to 70 cm, erect or geniculate. Leaf sheaths pubescent or densely hairy. Leaf blades 5-15 cm x 3-6 mm. Panicle to 20 x 10 cm, ovoid, erect, spreading or drooping, sometimes secund; panicle branches slender, pedicels mostly longer than spikelets. Spikelets 15-35 mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Glumes lanceolate, lower 4-5 mm, upper 6-7 mm. Lemma 8-12 mm, horny. Awn 5-16 mm, flattened at base, spreading or recurved when mature, lower awns often much shorter and more erect than upper. Palea clearly shorter than lemma. Anthers 0.75-1.5 mm. 2n = 14. Fl. 5-7. Cultivated land, fallow fields, grassy steppe, dry slopes, s.l.-2300 m.
1. Panicle compound, to 20 cm, spreading or drooping, sometimes secund; spikelets usually numerous; lemma 8-10 mm, with rounded or weakly angled margins; awns rarely exceeding lemma subsp. japonicus
1. Panicle usually simple, to 12 cm, erect or spreading; spikelets few; lemma 10-12 mm, with clearly angled margins; some awns longer than lemma subsp. anatolicus , Crimea; distribution incompletely known.)
