Family:
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus:
Brachypodium P.Beauv.

Brachypodium kotschyi Boiss.

This species is accepted, and its native range is S. Turkey.

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Perennial. Stolons present. Culms erect, or geniculately ascending; 30-70 cm long; 1 mm diam. Lateral branches lacking. Leaves 2-3 per branch. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; convolute; 4-8 cm long; 1 mm wide. Leaf-blade apex acute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 1; single; bilateral; 2-4.5 cm long; bearing few fertile spikelets; bearing 2-7 fertile spikelets on each. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; lax; 2 -rowed. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 6-9 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate, or oblong; laterally compressed; 9-15 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 6-9 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate, or oblong; laterally compressed; 9-15 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume linear, or oblong; 4-6 mm long; 0.7-0.8 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels; 5-7 -veined. Lower glume apex obtuse. Upper glume linear, or oblong; 5-8 mm long; 0.8-0.9 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; without keels; 5-7 -veined. Upper glume apex obtuse.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Fertile lemma oblong; 6-9 mm long; membranous; without keel; 7 -veined. Lemma apex obtuse; muticous. Palea oblong; 1 length of lemma. Palea keels ciliolate. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Anthers 3. Ovary with a fleshy appendage below style insertion; pubescent on apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex; apex fleshy. Hilum linear.
Distribution
Asia-temperate: western Asia.
Reference
Brachypodieae. Fl Turk 1993.

Native to:

Turkey

Brachypodium kotschyi Boiss. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Fl. Orient. 5: 659 (1884)

Accepted by

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1985). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 9: 1-724. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1985). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 9: 1-724. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0