Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : mipmi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: early sand-grass
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Zwerggras ; ES : mibora mínima ; FR : mibora printanière ; IT : cappellini minori ; PT : ; EN : early sand-grass ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Shoot rolled, leaf sheath flattened.
- Leaf blade 20-50 times longer than broad, leaf glabrous.
- Ligule membranous, truncate overlapping the sheath.
- Height: 3-12 cm. Plant tufted.
- Stem filiform and erect, leafless on the most part of its length.
- Leaves short, narrow, channelled and nearly filiform. Blade filiform, sheath swollen with 2 terminal lobes on each side of the blade.
- Inflorescence : flowers purple, rarely greenish. Minute spikelets 4-12 in a slender spike. Glumes oblong, obtuse at the apex, hairless, the upper somewhat longer than the lower and nearly 2x longer than the very hairy floral glumes.
- Fruit small and ginger.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Present
