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Bayer Code : brost

Scientific name: Bromus sterilis L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: barren brome

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Taube Trespe ; ES : bromo esteril ; FR : brome stérile ; IT : forasacco rosso ; PT : ; EN : barren brome ; NL : IJle dravik ; DK : gold hejre

Biological type: Annual, Biennial

Seed snapshotSeed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Shoot rolled, cylindrical leaf sheath.

- Lamina 20-50 times longer than large, leaf more or less hairy.

- Ligule membranous dentate, auricles absent.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-80 cm. Cespitose, hairy.

- Stem erect.

- Leaves smooth pale green. Lamina and leaf sheath abundantly hairy, purplish/rose veins. Cauline leaves with pubescent lamina and glabrous leaf sheath. Leaf sheath fused upto 2/3 of its length.

- Inflorescence : purplish or green panicle, very slack with long inclined branches, clustered. Multiflorous spikelets, widened at top; lower glume of each narrow spikelet with 2 small teeth at top and extended by awn which is not bent at maturity.

- Species increasing in crops.

- - Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all other species of Bromus genus.

- Biological type: annual to biennial.

Mistake with: Bromus

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