Avellinia
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Tufted annuals. Leaves flat or involute. Inflorescence a contracted panicle. Spikelets laterally compressed, 2–4-flowered, florets rather distant; glumes 2, very unequal, persistent, membranous, the lower 1-nerved, the upper 3-nerved, subequal to the florets; lemma linear, obscurely 3-nerved, membranous, narrowly bilobed at the apex, shortly awned from the sinus; palea 2-nerved, shorter than lemma and deeply bifid.
1 species only, native of the Mediterranean region.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
10 Apr. 2019
Spinning
genus
Avellinia
