Sclerochloa
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annuals. Leaf-blades flat; ligules membranous. Inflorescence a stiff, one-sided raceme or panicle with a few racemose branches. Spikelets shortly pedicellate or subsessile, tardily breaking apart at maturity, 3–5-flowered, only the lower 2 or 3 usually fertile and bisexual; glumes 2, membranous, keeled, obtuse, unequal, persistent or falling with the intact spikelet; lemma rigid, keeled, blunt or emarginate, exceeding glumes; palea slightly shorter than lemma; rachilla segments thick.
2 species from southern Europe and the Middle East; 1 naturalised in Australia.
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.
Spinning
genus
Sclerochloa
