Sclerochloa dura

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 170

1. S. dura (L.) Beauv., Agrost. 98, 177 (1812).

Stems up to 16 cm, procumbent to erect. Inflorescence 1 -4 cm, rigid, more or less secund; pedicels stout, up to 1 mm. Spikelets 6-10 mm, narrowly oblong, crowded. Glumes somewhat asymmetrical, glabrous, oblong-ovate, with wide hyaline margins; lower glume 2-3 mm, obtuse to emarginate, with (1—)3(—5) veins; upper glume 3 -5-5 mm, rounded to emarginate, with (5-)7-9 veins. Lowest lemma 4-8-6 mm, the upper much shorter, glabrous, rounded to emarginate, sometimes very shortly mucronate. Anthers 0-8-1 -5 mm. Lowest rhachilla-segments 2-2- 5 mm, the upper shorter. 2« = 14. Dry places. S. & S.C. Europe, but absent from the islands; S. part of U.S.S.R.; casual andperhaps locally naturalized further north. Au Bu Cz Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (*C, W, K, E) Tu [Po].