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|accepted_name=Aegilops ventricosa
|accepted_authority=Tausch
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|common_names=Swollen goatgrass;Belly-shaped hardgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Triticeae;Aegilops;Aegilops ventricosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Triticeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aegilops]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aegilops ventricosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 263
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>25-70 cm, erect to slightly geniculate at the base, forming few to many tillers. <b>Sheaths</b> with hyaline margins, ciliate; blades 7-15 cm long, 3-6 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> 5-12 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, distinctly moniliform, with 3-11 fertile spikelets; rudimentary spikelets usually absent, sometimes 1-2; disarticulation in the rachises, the spikelets falling attached to the internodes above. <b>Fertile</b> spikelets 7-11 mm, urceolate, with 2-5 florets, the distal 1-2 florets sterile. <b>Glumes</b> of fertile spikelets mostly glabrous, veins setulose, apices truncate, with a sharply acute tooth to 3 mm; glumes of apical spikelets 7-8 mm, with a central tooth or awn flanked by 2 short teeth, central awns to 0.9 cm on the lower glumes, to 2 cm on the upper glumes; lemmas of fertile spikelets 8-10 mm, adaxial surfaces velutinous, apices awned, awns 0.3-3 cm, solitary; lemmas of apical spikelets awned, awns to 4 cm. <b>Caryopses</b> 5-7 mm, adhering to the lemmas and paleas. <b>Haplomes</b> DN. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>In the Flora region, <i>Aegilops ventricosa</i> was collected once in New Castle County, Delaware. It is native to the Mediterranean area. The Arabic name, Oum el guemab, translates as 'mother of [durum] wheat'. It occasionally forms hybrids with <i>Triticum durum</i>, although the two species have no haplomes in common.</p>
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name=Aegilops ventricosa
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|authority=Tausch
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|family=Poaceae
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Triticeae
|genus=Aegilops
|species=Aegilops ventricosa
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