*Bromus tectorum* L., Sp. Pl. 1:77. 1753 Common names: Cheatgrass, downy brome, downy chess, drooping brome
Annual grass usually less than 60 cm tall, usually with 4 to 4 nodes; leaf blades up to 20 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, pubescenct ; sheaths pubescent; spikelets narrowly wedge-shaped, 15-35 mm long, in a spreading panicle bearing 3-5 branches at each node; florets 4-8; lower glume 8-15 mm long, upper 11-17 mm long; lemmas linear, 10-20 mm long, barely 1-1.5 mm in side view, margin hyaline, gaping in mature spikelets; awn 12-40 mm long. Photographed from Kashmir -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
