Phalaris minor

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Annual. Stems 20-80 cm. Upper leaf sheaths not or slightly inflated; ligule 4-6 mm. Leaf blades 3-9 mm broad. Panicle dense, oblong to cylindrical, 1.5-5.5 x 1-1.5 cm. Spikelets shortly pedicellate. Glumes 5 mm; wing erose-denticulate. Sterile lemma 1, 1 mm, adpressed-hairy, Fertile lemma 3 mm,  adpressed-hairy, Anthers 1.5-1.8 mm. Caryopsis 2 mm. 2n = 28. Fl. 4-7. Hill slopes, phrygana, fields, roadsides and as a weed in gardens, s.l.-c. 300 m.

Mediterranean area, S.W. & C. Asia, India. Medit. element.