Three-awn goat grass
Aegilops neglecta
Synonyms: Aegilops triaristata var. brachychaeta, Aegilops triaristata subsp. elongata, Triticum ovatum var. triaristatum, Aegilops mixta, Aegilops triaristata subsp. intermixta, Aegilops ovata subsp. euovata, Aegilops neglecta var. contorta, Aegilops neglecta var. quadriaristata, Aegilops neglecta var. trojana, Aegilops triaristata var. hirtula, Aegilops virescens, Aegilops ovata, Aegilops fausii, Aegilops ovata subsp. triaristata, Aegilops campicola, Aegilops triaristata var. intermedia, Aegilops ovata var. triaristata, Aegilops triaristata subsp. quadriaristata, Triticum ovatum, Aegilops ovata var. latiaristata, Aegilops calida, Aegilops triaristata subvar. robusta, Aegilops recta, Aegilops triaristata var. ochreata, Aegilops neglecta subsp. contracta, Aegilops triaristata subsp. recta, Aegilops contracta, Frumentum ovatum, Aegilops geniculata var. latiaristata, Triticum rectum, Aegilops neglecta var. ochreata, Aegilops triaristata f. kabylica, Aegilops gussonei, Aegilops neglecta subsp. recta, Aegilops ovata var. trispiculata, Aegilops algeriensis, Aegilops triaristata subsp. contracta, Aegilops triaristata subsp. contorta, Triticum triaristatum, Aegilops viridescens, Triticum neglectum, Aegilops ovata var. typica, Aegilops triaristata subsp. typica, Aegilops triaristata var. vulgaris, Aegilops triaristata subsp. attenuata, Aegilops ovata subvar. subbiaristata, Aegilops mesantha, Aegilops ovata var. vulgaris, Aegilops triaristata subvar. subbiaristata, Aegilops triaristata var. quadriaristata, Aegilops triaristata var. trojana, Aegilops triaristata var. macrochaeta
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Botanical Description
Aegilops neglecta, the three-awn goat grass, is an annual grass of the family Poaceae closely related to the cultivated wheats. It grows as a small tufted plant 15 to 40 centimetres tall, with several geniculately ascending culms arising from a fibrous root system. The leaves are flat, soft and short-hairy, 3 to 10 centimetres long and 2 to 5 millimetres wide, with prominent membranous ligules. The inflorescence is a stout, cylindrical to slightly tapering spike 1.5 to 4 centimetres long composed of two to four (rarely five) fertile sessile spikelets that fall together as a unit at maturity. Each spikelet is closely appressed to the rachis and contains three to five florets enclosed by leathery glumes; the upper glumes and lemmas of the apical spikelet typically bear three long divergent awns 1.5 to 5 centimetres long, giving the species its common name. It occurs across the Mediterranean basin, southern Europe, the Balkans and Western Asia in dry rocky slopes, fallow fields, roadsides and disturbed ground, and is recognised as a polyploid donor in the evolutionary history of bread and durum wheats.
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