Cyper. Gramin. Sicul. 39 (1820).- Type: Presl s.n., Italy (- L,PRC).
Bromus rubens Linn. ssp. fasciculatus (Linn.) Trabut, Fl. Algérie, Monocot.: 226 (1895); nom. illeg.
Description:
* Annual, in tufts or solitary culms, 4-25 cm high. Culms erect or geniculately ascending. Leaves 2-10 (-20) cm long and 2-3 mm wide, pubescent.
* Inflorescence a contracted obovate panicle of 2-6 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Primary branches bearing 1(-2) spikelet on each lower branch, pubescent.
* Spikelets with reduced florets at the tip, breaking up below each floret, cuneate, laterally compressed, 1-2 cm long and 5-12 mm wide. Glumes membranous, keelless, the lower linear, 6-8 mm long, the upper lanceolate, 8-12 mm long. Lemmas divergent, lanceolate, 11-15 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide, chartaceous, margins involute, tip dentate, 2-fid with an subapical curved awn of 10-18 mm long; palea keels ciliolate. Anthers 3, 0.5 mm long.
Distribution West Africa: Chad, Sudan.
Distribution world-wide: Morocco, Tunesia, Libya, Egypt, southern Europe and West Asia.