Aegilops comosa comosa

Description

Annual. Culms erect, or decumbent; 15-40 cm long. Leaf-sheath oral hairs ciliate. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades conduplicate, or involute; 1-6 cm long; 1-2 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pilose; sparsely hairy; hairy on both sides.Racemes 1; single; linear; smoothly terete; bilateral; 3-7 cm long; bearing 2 fertile spikelets on each. Rhachis semiterete. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis. Rhachis internodes linear; 9-11 mm long; 1 length of fertile spikelet.