Hordeum spontaneum K.Koch

Spontaneous barley (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Hordeum

Characteristics

Plants annual. Culms 40–50 cm tall, 5-or 6-noded, glabrous. Leaf sheath glabrous; ligule yellowish brown, ca. 1 mm, apex truncate; auricles present, 2–3 mm; leaf blade 5–10 × 0.4–0.6 cm. Spike distichous, greenish to dark brown, slightly compressed, 4–6 × ca. 1 cm; rachis ca. 3 mm, brittle, densely pubescent. Lateral spikelets: pedicellate, sterile; pedicel ca. 2 mm; lemma apex rounded-obtuse, cuspidate, very shortly awned, or with awn 6–10 mm. Central spikelets: sessile, 1–1.4 cm; glumes linear-lanceolate, densely hairy, apex tapering into slender, scabrous awn; lemma broadly elliptic, glabrous, apex prolonged into flat, very scabrous awn 5–17 cm. Fl. and fr. Apr–Jun.
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A grass that grows each year from seed. It grows 40-50 cm tall. The leaf blade is 5-10 cm long by 4-6 mm wide.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.6
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Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in waste places and among stones between 3,500-4,000 m above sea level.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses animal food
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Images

Hordeum spontaneum unspecified picture

Distribution

Hordeum spontaneum world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Palau, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:405362-1
WFO ID wfo-0000875016
COL ID 3MP3C
BDTFX ID 121823
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Hordeum agriocrithon Hordeum decaisneanum Hordeum decaisnei Hordeum ischnatherum Hordeum ithaburense Hordeum proskowetzii Hordeum spontaneum Hordeum agriocrithon var. dawoense Hordeum distichon var. spontaneum Hordeum ithaburense var. ischnatherum Hordeum spontaneum var. ischnatherum Hordeum spontaneum var. ithaburense Hordeum spontaneum var. proskowetzii Hordeum vulgare subsp. agriocrithon Hordeum vulgare var. spontaneum Hordeum spontaneum var. spontaneum Hordeum agriocrithon var. nudum Hordeum spontaneum var. turcomanicum Hordeum spontaneum var. anatolicum