Family:
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus:
Hordeum L.

Hordeum brevisubulatum (Trin.) Link

This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Europe to Russian Far East and Himalaya.

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Perennial; caespitose. Culms erect, or geniculately ascending; 15-100 cm long. Culm-nodes pubescent. Leaf-sheath oral hairs lacking. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.2-0.7 mm long. Leaf-blades 9-18 cm long; 1-7 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface scabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 1; single; linear; bilateral; 2.5-9.5 cm long; 3-4.5 mm wide. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; flattened; ciliate on margins. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis. Rhachis internodes oblong; 1-1.5 mm long; falling with spikelet above. Spikelets in threes. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 2 in the cluster. Pedicels oblong; 0.9-2.3 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Companion sterile spikelets well-developed; containing empty lemmas, or male; lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 3-11 mm long; shorter than fertile; deciduous with the fertile. Companion sterile spikelet glumes subulate. Companion sterile spikelet lemmas 1; 3-6.5 mm long; 1-awned; with 1 mm long awn. Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4-10 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
Sterile
Companion sterile spikelets well-developed; containing empty lemmas, or male; lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 3-11 mm long; shorter than fertile; deciduous with the fertile. Companion sterile spikelet glumes subulate. Companion sterile spikelet lemmas 1; 3-6.5 mm long; 1-awned; with 1 mm long awn.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4-10 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes collateral; similar. Lower glume subulate; 4-10 mm long; 1 length of upper glume. Lower glume surface scabrous. Upper glume subulate; 4-10 mm long. Upper glume surface scabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Fertile lemma lanceolate; 4.5-9 mm long; coriaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface scabrous; glabrous, or puberulous. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 1-7 mm long overall; limb scabrous. Rhachilla extension 1.3-6 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Anthers 3. Ovary pubescent on apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; sulcate on hilar side; hairy at apex. Hilum linear.
Distribution
Europe: eastern. Asia-temperate: Siberia, Soviet far east, Soviet Middle Asia, Caucasus, western Asia, China, and Mongolia. Asia-tropical: India.
Reference
Triticeae. Bothmer 1993.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, East European Russia, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Pakistan, Primorye, Qinghai, South European Russi, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya

Introduced into:

Czechoslovakia

Hordeum brevisubulatum (Trin.) Link appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Kultiassov, M.V. [537], Middle Asia Hordeum brevisubulatum var. turkestanicum K000950584 Yes
Rajkova, I.A. [537], Uzbekistan Hordeum brevisubulatum subsp. turkestanicum K000950583 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Kotschy, T. [325], Iran Hordeum brevisubulatum subsp. violaceum K000950541 isotype Yes
Huet du Pavillon, E. [s.n.], Turkey Hordeum brevisubulatum subsp. violaceum K000950542 Yes

First published in Linnaea 17: 391 (1844)

Accepted by

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  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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  • Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dal’nego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
  • Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 2: 1-362. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
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Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

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  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

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