Elymus repens

Sabankıran

Perennial with long-creeping rhizomes. Stems 30-80 cm, glabrous. Leaves 3-10 mm broad, usually flat, scabrid or sparsely pilose. Spike usually 5-15 cm, dense or lax; rachis spinulose-ciliate on main angles. Spikelets ± compressed laterally. Glumes 5-10 mm, lanceolate, 3-7-veined, slightly scabrid on midvein towards apex, acute or acuminate, usually mucronate. Lemma glabrous.

1. Glumes usually acuminate or with short awn to 3 mm; lemma 8-11 mm, acute, mucronate to shortly awned; palea ciliate throughout most of length of keels …………..subsp. repens

1. Glumes acute or with short, obtuse mucro to 0.2 mm; lemma 6-10 mm, unawned, often emarginate at apex, with short thick point, not projecting beyond apex; palea minutely ciliate on keels in upper part …………………….subsp. elongatiformis