Cornucopiae cucullatum
Cornucopiae cucullatum
Külahot
Annual. Stems 8-47 cm, simple or branched, numerous, erect to geniculately ascending from base, 2-5-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous, strongly inflated; ligule 0.7-3 mm, obtuse; blades 0.6-12 cm x 1-6 mm, linear, acuminate, glabrous to scabrid or ciliate on upper surface. Panicle 0.5-1.2 cm x 2-9 mm, ovate; peduncles curved, retrorsely scabrid. Involucre 3.5-5.5 mm, enveloping ± half of panicle, glabrous to scabrid, dentate at apex; each tooth 1-1.6 mm, acute. Spikelets 6-7.5 mm, oblong, truncate. Glumes as long as lemma, narrowly elliptic-oblong, usually ciliate on keels. Lemma ovate, truncate at apex; awn very short or absent. Anthers 4-6 mm. Caryopsis 2-2.6 mm, obovate, laterally compressed. Fl. 3-5. Moist banks, marshy fields, cultivated land, s.l.-500m.
Italy, Sicily, Greece, Aegean, W. Syria, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq. E. Medit. element.
