Aegilops tauschii

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Aegilops

Plants annual . Culms usually erect . Leaf sheath split almost to base ; auricles cresent-shaped; leaf blade usually flat. Spike cylindric , lanceolate, or ovoid , dense; rachis disarticulating below each spikelet into segments. Spikelets 1 per node, sessile and fitting into rachis, cylindric or turgid , with 2-8 florets ; rachilla not jointed , shortly pilose . Glumes rounded abaxially, leathery or cartilaginous , many veined, not keeled , apex truncate or toothed ; teeth usually prolonged into longish awns . Lemma oblong or lanceolate, rounded abaxially, leathery-membranous to leathery, 5-7-veined, not keeled, apex usually 1-3-toothed or -awned; callus very short, obtuse . Palea equaling or subequaling lemma, ciliate along keels. Caryopsis free or adherent to lemma and palea, oblong-ovate, furrowed , apex hairy . x = 7.

About 21 species: mainly in the Mediterranean region, extending into N Africa and eastward to C Asia; one species in China.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,185 meters (0 to 10,449 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aegilops Squarrosa of Authors • Aegilops tauschii auct. non Coss. • Patropyrum tauschii< /i> (Coss.) Á. Löve

Notes

Publishing author : Coss. Publication : Notes Crit. 69

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aegilops

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. bicornis (Goatgrass) · A. comosa (Goatgrass) · A. crassa (Persian Goatgrass) · A. cylindrica (Jointed Goat Grass) · A. cylindrica host (Jointed Goat Grass) · A. geniculata (Ovate Goatgrass) · A. longissima (Goatgrass) · A. lorentii (Lorent's Goatgrass) · A. searsii (Sears' Goatgrass) · A. speltoides (Goatgrass) · A. tauschii (Tausch's Goatgrass) · A. triuncialis (Barb Goatgrass) · A. umbellulata (Goatgrass) · A. ventricosa (Barbed Goatgrass)

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Further Reading

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 30, 2007:

• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), EURISCO
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
• Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
• , IPK Genebank
• Natural History Museum, Vienna - Herbarium W, Herbarium W
• US National Plant Germplasm System, United States National Plant Germplasm System Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-565607
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13788386
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:881268-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 384652-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2765871

Footnotes

1. "Aegilops". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 387, 444. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 1,097.250 meters (3,599.902 feet), Standard Deviation = 799.550 based on 281 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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