View source for Lagurus ← Lagurus You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Lagurus |accepted_authority=L. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Lagurus |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 Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lagurus]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 670 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted. <b>Culms</b> 6-80 cm, erect or ascending, pilose or villous. <b>Leaves</b> pilose or villous; sheaths open nearly to the base; auricles absent; ligules truncate, erose, ciliate, abaxial surfaces densely pubescent; blades flat at maturity, convolute in the bud. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, dense, ovoid. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, with 1 floret; rachillas prolonged beyond the base of the floret, pubescent; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the floret. <b>Glumes</b> 2, equal, exceeding the florets, lanceolate, membranous, pilose, hairs 2-3 mm, 1-veined, veins acuminate and awned, awns pilose; calluses blunt, pubescent; lemmas lanceolate, pilose or scabridulous, 3-veined, 3-awned, apices bifid, lateral veins extending as slender awns, not twisted below, central awn arising from the distal 1/3 of the lemma, twisted below; paleas nearly as long as the lemmas, veins scabridulous, extending as awnlike points; lodicules 2, narrowly elliptic, glabrous, apices minutely bilobed; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous; styles fused or separate. <b>Caryopses</b> stipitate, subterete, ellipsoid; hila 1/5-1/4 as long as the caryopses, ovate, x = 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=N.J.;Alta.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;N.C.;Fla.;Oreg.;Conn. |discussion=<p><i>Lagurus</i> is a monotypic genus endemic to the Mediterranean region. <i>Lagurus ovatus</i> has been introduced in North America, as well as South America, southern Africa, and Australia. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental, and the dried flowering culms are used in floral arrangements.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=messeri1942a |text=Messeri, A. 1942. Studio sistematico e fitogeografico di Lagurus ovatus L. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 49:133-204 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=vergagno1965a |text=Vergagno Gambi, O. 1965. Osservazioni sullo sviluppo di Lagurus ovatus L. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 72:243-254. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Lagurus |author=Gordon C. Tucker; |authority=L. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=N.J.;Alta.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;N.C.;Fla.;Oreg.;Conn. |reference=messeri1942a;vergagno1965a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_943.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae |genus=Lagurus }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Poeae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Lagurus.