Sorghum halepense
Sorghum halepense
Ekin süpürgesi
Perennial with stout, scaly, broadly spreading rhizome. Stems 30-150 cm, erect, vegetative portion glabrous except for shortly sericeous-pubescent nodes, axis of panicle scabrid, rarely glabrous. Leaf blades linear-acuminate, 16-46 cm x 5-14 mm, flat, with scabrid margins. Panicle erect, open, 7-30 cm, with verticillate branches 5-55 mm. Sessile spikelets ovate, creamy-buff, sometimes with a purplish tinge, 4-6 x 1.2-2.1 mm, shortly pubescent, awnless or usually with a geniculate awn 6.5-17.5 mm. Pedicellate spikelets usually violet-purple, 4-7 x 0.5-1.5 mm, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, awnless; pedicel 1.5-3 mm. Fl.5-11. Moist hills, streamsides, cornand fallow fields, sandy beaches and dunes, nr s.l.-1400 m.
1. Sessile spikelets awned var. halepense
1. Sessile spikelets awnless var. muticum
Distribution of species: Mediterranean area, S.W. & C. Asia E. to Kashmir and S. to Madras ; Australia .
