Poaceae

B.japonicusThunb., Fl. Jap. 52, t. 11 (1784). Figure 11.
Annual. Stems to 70 cm, erect or geniculate. Leaf sheaths pubescent or densely hairy. Leaf blades 5-15 cm x 3-6 mm. Panicle to 20 x 10 cm, ovoid, erect, spreading or drooping, sometimes secund; panicle branches slender, pedicels mostly longer than spikelets. Spikelets 15-35(-40) mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Glumes lanceolate, lower 4-5 mm, upper 6-7 mm. Lemma 8-12 mm, horny. Awn 5-16 mm, flattened at base, spreading or recurved when mature, lower awns often much shorter and more erect than upper. Palea clearly shorter than lemma. Anthers 0.75-1.5 mm. 2n = 14. Fl. 5-7. Cultivated land, fallow fields, grassy steppe, dry slopes, s.l-2300 m.
1. Panicle compound, to 20 cm, spreading or drooping, sometimes secund; spikelets usually numerous; lemma 8-10 mm, with rounded or weakly angled margins; awns rarely exceeding lemma subsp. japonicus
1. Panicle usually simple, to 12 cm, erect or spreading; spikelets few;lemma
10-12 mm, with clearly angled margins; some awns longer than lemma subsp. anatolicus
subsp. anatolicus (Boiss. & Heldr.) Penzes in Bot. Közlem. 33:118, t. 3 f. 21, 22 (1936). Syn: B. anatolicus Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(13);63 (1854)!
Type: [Turkey C3 Antalya] in rupestribus collium prope Tsimboukhan Pamphyliae, [v 1845], Heldreich [623] (holo. G! iso. TO).
Inner & S. Anatolia. B5 Kayseri: Erciyas Da., 1400 m, Penther & Zeder-bauer. B6 Adana: 7 km N. of Saimbeyli, 1400 m, Sorger 77-27-19! Sivas: 2 km N. of Sincan (Divriği), 1400 m, Sorger 70-27-9! Malatya: 35 km S.E. of Darende, 1700 m, Sorger 71-47-14! B9 Van: 20 km E. of Ercis, 1900-2000 m, Sorger & Buchner 82-43-82! C2 Denizli: Pamukkale, Sorger 67-40-13! C4 Içel: 6 km S. of Uzuncaburç, 500 m, Sorger 71-25-18! C5 Içel: Güzeldere, Sedichig, Boiss. 49.
S.W. Asia (Syria, Lebanon, Transcaucasia), Crimea; distribution incomplete-ly known.