Sicklegrass

Description

Parapholis is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. It is a grass herbaceous plant with a long spike that has spikelets very closely attached to the axis, with what looks like an elongated cane , thin and rigid, this can be little curved or very curved and even spiral, in the species P. incurva . It blooms in late spring and early summer . They are annual plants. Stems often branched. Sheets with free margins; short ligule , usually truncated, membranous; limb flat or folded, rarely convolute. Inflorescence in spike , with sharply excavated axis, disarticulating at maturity. Spikelets with 1 single fertile flower and 2 glumes longer than the flower, covering each excavation of the axis, except in the anthesis. Coriaceous Glumas, with 5 very marked nerves and 1 transversal groove in the base. Membranous motto, trinervada. Palea as long as the motto, membranous, bidentate, with 2 keels little marked, generally puberulent at the top. Androceo with 3 stamens. Ovary glabrous.