- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Deschampsia P.Beauv.
Deschampsia media (Gouan) Roem. & Schult.
- Genus: Deschampsia P.Beauv.
[GB]
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial; caespitose; clumped loosely. Culms erect; 8-70 cm long. Culm-internodes smooth. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 5 mm long; acute. Leaf-blades filiform; involute; 2-20 cm long; 1 mm wide; glaucous. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex attenuate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; ovate; loose; 3-24 cm long; 2-15 cm wide. Primary panicle branches spreading. Panicle branches scaberulous. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels filiform.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 2 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate, or oblong; laterally compressed; 3-5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets. Rhachilla internodes definite; pubescent. Floret callus pilose.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 2 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate, or oblong; laterally compressed; 3-5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets. Rhachilla internodes definite; pubescent. Floret callus pilose.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
- Glumes persistent; similar; reaching apex of florets; similar to fertile lemma in texture; shiny. Lower glume lanceolate; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; purple; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein scaberulous. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume elliptic; 1-1.1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; purple; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Fertile lemma oblong; 3-4 mm long; membranous; shiny; without keel; 4 -veined. Lemma apex dentate; 4 -fid; with outer lobes longer; truncate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn dorsal; arising 0.5 way up back of lemma; straight; 1.5-3 mm long overall. Rhachilla extension 0.5-0.75 length of fertile floret; pilose.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Lodicules 2; membranous. Anthers 3. Ovary glabrous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum punctiform.
- Distribution
- Europe: central, southwestern, and southeastern. Asia-temperate: Caucasus.
- Reference
- Aveneae. Fl Eur 1997.
Native to:
Albania, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, North Caucasus, Portugal, Spain, Transcaucasus, Yugoslavia
- Aira alpina Savi
- Aira capillaris Savi
- Aira caryophyllea Bertol.
- Aira juncea Vill.
- Aira media Gouan
- Aira media var. congesta Font Quer
- Aira pumila Vill. ex Trin.
- Aira refracta Lag.
- Aira subaristata Faye ex Andersson
- Aira subtriflora Lag.
- Aira triflora Roem. & Schult.
- Calamagrostis leersii Koeler
- Campella media (Gouan) Link
- Deschampsia cespitosa var. congesta (Font Quer) Ehr.Bayer & G.López
- Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. subtriflora (Lag.) Ehr.Bayer & G.López
- Deschampsia elegans Sennen
- Deschampsia juncea (Vill.) P.Beauv.
- Deschampsia media var. congesta (Font Quer) F.M.Vázquez
- Deschampsia media f. elegans (Sennen) Cervi & Romo
- Deschampsia media subsp. masclansii Cervi & Romo
- Deschampsia media var. masclansii (Cervi & Romo) O.Bolòs & Vigo
- Deschampsia refracta (Lag.) Roem. & Schult.
- Deschampsia subtriflora Parl.
- Schismus gouanii Trin.
- Schismus villarsii Trin.
Deschampsia media (Gouan) Roem. & Schult. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 687 (1817)
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.
- Greuter, W. & Raus, T. (eds.) (2010). Med-Checklist Notulae, 29 Willdenowia 40: 189-204.
- Meyer, F.K. (2011). Beiträge zur Flora von Albanien Haussknechtia, Beih. 15: 1-220.
- Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Greuter, W. & Raus, T. (eds.) (2010). Med-Checklist Notulae, 29 Willdenowia 40: 189-204.
- Meyer, F.K. (2011). Beiträge zur Flora von Albanien Haussknechtia, Beih. 15: 1-220.
- Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
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