Dasypyrum
Encyclopedia
Dasypyrum is a genus
of annual or perennial grass in the Poaceae
family, found in Europe
, Africa
, and temperate Asia
. Culm
s are erect or decumbent, with heights ranging from 10–100 cm. Raceme
s are single, oblong, and bilateral, and spikelets solitary.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of annual or perennial grass in the Poaceae
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
family, found in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, and temperate Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Culm
Culm
Culm, in botanical context, originally referred to a stem of any type of plant. It is derived from the Latin word for 'stalk' and now specifically refers to the above-ground or aerial stems of grasses and sedges....
s are erect or decumbent, with heights ranging from 10–100 cm. Raceme
Raceme
A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...
s are single, oblong, and bilateral, and spikelets solitary.
Species
- Dasypyrum breviaristatum
- Dasypyrum hordeaceum
- Dasypyrum sinaicum
- Dasypyrum villosumDasypyrum villosumDasypyrum villosum is a species of annual grass in the Poaceae family, found in Europe, Africa, and temperate Asia. Culms are decumbent, with heights ranging from 25–70 cm. Racemes are single, oblong, bilateral, and 4–10 cm long; spikelets are oblong, laterally compressed, and...