- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
Bromus L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. & Subtropical to Tropical Mountains.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Gramineae, W. D. Clayton, S. M. Phillips And S. A. Renvoize. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1974
- Habit
- Annuals or perennials
- Leaves
- Leaf-blades rarely auriculate; sheaths usually hairy
- Inflorescences
- Panicle usually fairly large and open
- Spikelets
- Spikelets usually large, the lemmas well exserted from the glumes and awned from the sinus of the 2-toothed tip or from just below it, rarely with just an awn-point or mucro
- Style
- Styles arising laterally from below the hairy apex of the ovary.
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora under the synonym Boissiera
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- Habit
- Annual. Culms erect, or decumbent; 5-15 cm long. Leaf-sheaths tubular for much of their length. Ligule an eciliate membrane.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle contracted. Spikelets ascending; solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels oblong.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 2-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 10-17 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 2-4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 10-17 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets.
- Glume
- Glumes persistent; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 0.75 length of upper glume; without keels; 1-3 -veined. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 0.5-0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; without keels; 5-7 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.
- Florets
- Fertile lemma oblong; chartaceous; much thinner above; without keel; 9 -veined. Lemma lateral veins ribbed. Lemma surface glabrous, or pilose. Lemma apex erose; obtuse; awned; 5-9 -awned. Principal lemma awn dorsal; curved. Lateral lemma awns shorter than principal. Apical sterile florets 3-6 in number; barren; in a clump; oblong. Apical sterile lemmas awned.
- Flowers
- Anthers 3. Ovary with a fleshy appendage above style insertion; pubescent on apex.
- Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; oblong. Embryo 0.33 length of caryopsis. Hilum linear; 1 length of caryopsis.
- Distribution
- Africa, or Temperate Asia, or Tropical Asia.
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Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Antipodean Is., Bermuda, Chatham Is., Crozet Is., Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Falkland Is., Føroyar, Greenland, Haiti, Hawaii, Iceland, Jamaica, Kermadec Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Namibia, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Swaziland, Trinidad-Tobago, Tristan da Cunha
Accepted Species
- Bromus aegyptiacus Tausch
- Bromus alopecuros Poir.
- Bromus andringitrensis A.Camus
- Bromus anomalus Rupr. ex E.Fourn.
- Bromus araucanus Phil.
- Bromus arenarius Labill.
- Bromus aristatus (K.Koch) Steud.
- Bromus arizonicus (Shear) Stebbins
- Bromus armenus Boiss.
- Bromus arrhenatheroides Baker
- Bromus arvensis L.
- Bromus attenuatus Swallen
- Bromus auleticus Trin. ex Nees
- Bromus ayacuchensis Saarela & P.M.Peterson
- Bromus benekenii (Lange) Trimen
- Bromus berteroanus Colla
- Bromus biebersteinii Roem. & Schult.
- Bromus bikfayensis A.Camus & Gomb.
- Bromus × bolzeanus H.Scholz
- Bromus bonariensis Parodi & J.H.Camara
- Bromus borianus H.Scholz
- Bromus brachyantherus Döll
- Bromus brachystachys Hornung
- Bromus × brevieri Chass.
- Bromus brevis Steud.
- Bromus briziformis Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Bromus bromoideus (Lej.) Crép.
- Bromus cabrerensis C.Acedo & Llamas
- Bromus carinatus Hook. & Arn.
- Bromus catharticus Vahl
- Bromus cebadilla Steud.
- Bromus ceramicus Ohwi
- Bromus chrysopogon Viv.
- Bromus ciliatus L.
- Bromus coloratus Steud.
- Bromus × commutatojaponicus Nyár.
- Bromus commutatus Schrad.
- Bromus confinis Nees ex Steud.
- Bromus danthoniae Trin.
- Bromus densus Swallen
- Bromus diandrus Roth
- Bromus dolichocarpus Wagnon
- Bromus × eburonensis (Nyman) K.Richt.
- Bromus elidis H.Scholz
- Bromus epilis Keng f.
- Bromus erectus Huds.
- Bromus exaltatus Bernh.
- Bromus fasciculatus C.Presl
- Bromus × ferronii Mabille
- Bromus firmior (Nees) Stapf
- Bromus × fischeri Cugnac & A.Camus
- Bromus flexuosus Planchuelo
- Bromus formosanus Honda
- Bromus frigidus Boiss. & Hausskn.
- Bromus frondosus (Shear) Wooton & Standl.
- Bromus gedrosianus Pénzes
- Bromus gracillimus Bunge
- Bromus × granatensis A.Camus
- Bromus grandis (Shear) Hitchc.
- Bromus grossus Desf. ex DC.
- Bromus × guetrotii A.Camus
- Bromus gunckelii Matthei
- Bromus × hannoverianus K.Richt.
- Bromus haussknechtii Boiss.
- Bromus himalaicus Stapf
- Bromus hordeaceus L.
- Bromus × husnotii A.Camus
- Bromus induratus Hausskn. & Bornm.
- Bromus inermis Leyss.
- Bromus insignis Buse
- Bromus intermedius Guss.
- Bromus interruptus (Hack.) Druce
- Bromus japonicus Houtt.
- Bromus kalmii A.Gray
- Bromus koeieanus Melderis
- Bromus kopetdagensis Drobow
- Bromus × laagei Cugnac & A.Camus
- Bromus laevipes Shear
- Bromus lanatipes (Shear) Rydb.
- Bromus lanatus Kunth
- Bromus lanceolatus Roth
- Bromus latiglumis (Shear) Hitchc.
- Bromus lepidus Holmb.
- Bromus leptoclados Nees
- Bromus lithobius Trin.
- Bromus × litvinovii Roshev. ex Nevski
- Bromus macrocladus Boiss.
- Bromus madritensis L.
- Bromus magnus Keng
- Bromus mairei Hack. ex Hand.-Mazz.
- Bromus mango É.Desv.
- Bromus marginatus Nees ex Steud.
- Bromus maritimus (Piper) Hitchc.
- Bromus maroccanus Pau & Font Quer
- Bromus modestus Renvoize
- Bromus moellendorffianus (Asch. & Graebn.) Hayek
- Bromus moesiacus Velen.
- Bromus moeszii Pénzes
- Bromus morrisonensis Honda
- Bromus musadoghanii Yild.
- Bromus natalensis Stapf
- Bromus nepalensis Melderis
- Bromus nervosus C.Acedo & Llamas
- Bromus nottowayanus Fernald
- Bromus orcuttianus Vasey
- Bromus oxyodon Schrenk
- Bromus pacificus Shear
- Bromus pannonicus Kumm. & Sendtn.
- Bromus parodii Covas & Itria
- Bromus paulsenii Hack.
- Bromus pectinatus Thunb.
- Bromus pellitus Hack.
- Bromus pinetorum Swallen
- Bromus pitensis Kunth
- Bromus plurinodis Keng
- Bromus polyanthus Scribn. ex Shear
- Bromus porphyranthos Cope
- Bromus porteri (Coult.) Nash
- Bromus psammophilus P.M.Sm.
- Bromus pseudobrachystachys H.Scholz
- Bromus pseudolaevipes Wagnon
- Bromus pseudoramosus Keng f. ex L.Liu
- Bromus pseudosecalinus P.M.Sm.
- Bromus pubescens Muhl. ex Willd.
- Bromus pulchellus Fig. & De Not.
- Bromus pumilio (Trin.) P.M.Sm.
- Bromus pumpellianus Scribn.
- Bromus racemosus L.
- Bromus ramosus Huds.
- Bromus remotiflorus (Steud.) Ohwi
- Bromus richardsonii Link
- Bromus rigidus Roth
- Bromus riparius Rehmann
- Bromus × robustus H.Scholz
- Bromus × rosettiae A.Camus
- Bromus rubens L.
- Bromus salangensis Naderi
- Bromus sclerophyllus Boiss.
- Bromus scoparius L.
- Bromus scopulorum Chase
- Bromus secalinus L.
- Bromus segetum Kunth
- Bromus × segoviensis A.Camus
- Bromus setifolius J.Presl
- Bromus sewerzowii Regel
- Bromus sinensis Keng f.
- Bromus sipyleus Boiss.
- Bromus sitchensis Trin.
- Bromus speciosus Nees
- Bromus squarrosus L.
- Bromus staintonii Melderis
- Bromus stenostachyus Boiss.
- Bromus sterilis L.
- Bromus striatus Hitchc.
- Bromus suksdorfii Vasey
- Bromus sundaicus Ohwi
- Bromus syriacus Boiss. & Blanche
- Bromus tectorum L.
- Bromus texensis (Shear) Hitchc.
- Bromus timorensis Veldkamp
- Bromus tomentellus Boiss.
- Bromus tomentosus Trin.
- Bromus tunicatus Phil.
- Bromus tyttholepis (Nevski) Nevski
- Bromus variegatus M.Bieb.
- Bromus villosissimus Hitchc.
- Bromus vulgaris (Hook.) Shear
Synonyms
- Anisantha K.Koch
- Avenaria Heist. ex Fabr.
- Boissiera Hochst. & Steud.
- Bromopsis (Dumort.) Fourr.
- Calliagrostis Ehrh.
- Ceratochloa P.Beauv.
- Euraphis (Trin.) Kuntze
- Forasaccus Bubani
- Genea (Dumort.) Dumort.
- Libertia Lej.
- Michelaria Dumort.
- Nevskiella V.I.Krecz. & Vved.
- Serrafalcus Parl.
- Stenofestuca (Honda) Nakai
- Triniusa Steud.
- Trisetobromus Nevski
Other Data
Bromus L. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (7 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Longhi-Wagner, H.M. [2863], Brazil | K001101241 | |||
Turner, D. [s.n.] | K000913719 | |||
Turner, D. [s.n.] | K000913720 | |||
Turner, D. [s.n.] | K000913721 | |||
Turner, D. [s.n.] | K000913722 | |||
Litwinow, D.I. [2183], Turkmenistan | K000913744 | |||
Vázquez, F.M. [33056] | K000913718 | isotype |
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 77 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 33 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 76 (1753)
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 33 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1: 76 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 33 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 76 (1753)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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