GRASS FAMILY
Aegilops kotschyi(Buğday anası)
(Walch)
Gramineae (Poaceae)
Tufted annual herbs. Stem erect, up to 25 cm. Leaves alternate; leaf blade lanceolate or linear lanceolate. Inflorescence a spike with at least the uppermost spikelet awned. Spikelets sessile, awned, laterally compressed. Glumes ovate-oblong, up to 6 x 3,5 mm. Florets 3, the 2 lower lemmas slightly exserted from glumes; other lemma sterile, stipitat. Fruit an ovate or elliptic caryopsis. Fl. May. Open coastal Pinus forest, littoral plain and low dunes, nr s.l.
Türkiye, N. Africa westwards to Tunusia; Cyprus, W. Syria, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait.
