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Lolium rigidum Gaudin (1811)
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Annual; culms (6-)18-45(-70) cm high, tufted, erect or geniculate at the base, moderately stout. Leaf-blades 5-17 cm long, 0.5-5(-8) mm wide, usually flat, with or without auricles up to 3.5 mm long at the base. Spikes straight or curved, 3-30 cm long, the rhachis rigid, slender to very thick, the spikelets slightly less than their own length apart. Spikelets 5-18 mm long, 5-8(-11)-flowered; upper glume 4-20(-30) mm long, half as long as to longer than the spikelets, 3-7(-9)-nerved, obtuse, rarely acute to acuminate; lemmas oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 3.2-8.5(-105) mm long, glabrous to scaberulous, obtuse, acute or erose at the tip, not turgid at maturity, usually awnless but rarely with a terminal awn up to 3(-10) mm long.
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Annual. Culms tufted, erect or geniculate at base, 20–80 cm tall, 2–4-noded, smooth or scabrid below inflorescence. Leaf blades 5–20 cm × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface and margins smooth or scabrid, abaxial surface smooth; auricles up to 3 mm or absent; ligule 0.5–2.5 mm, rounded or truncate. Raceme stiff, straight or curved, 5–20 cm; rachis slender to fairly stout, smooth or scabrid, 1–3 mm thick, spikelets appressed to partly sunken, overlapping by half their length or up to their own length apart. Spikelets 1–2 cm, florets 5–10; glume lanceolate to oblong, as long as spikelet, 5–7(–9)-veined; lemmas oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, 3–5-veined, scabrid, apex obtuse or erose; awn absent or 3(–8) mm on upper fertile florets only. Caryopsis length 3 times width or more.
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Type collection for Lolium rigidum var. corsicum Hack. ex Briq.
Catalog Number: US 101742
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified by specimen annotations only
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. I. Briquet
Year Collected: 1907
Locality: Garignes a Bastia., Corsica, France, Europe
- Type collection: Briquet, J. I. 1910. Prodr. Fl. Corse. 1: 180.
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Isotype for Lolium rigidum var. duthiei Hack. ex Hook. f.
Catalog Number: US 1015400
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. F. Duthie
Year Collected: 1892
Locality: Near Sirinagur., Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia-Tropical
Elevation (m): 1524 to 1829
- Isotype: Hooker, J. D. 1896. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 364.
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Isotype for Lolium crassiculme Rech. f.
Catalog Number: US 1936802
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): K. H. Rechinger
Year Collected: 1942
Locality: Sitia Dist., in arenosis maritimis ad Limin Sitias., Crete, Greece, Europe
- Isotype: Rechinger, K. H. 1943. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., Denkschr. 105: 175.
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Fields; 200–1800 m.
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Foodplant / parasite
embedded sorus of Urocystis bolivarii parasitises live Lolium rigidum
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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