Lygeum
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Lygeeae
J. Presl (1846)
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Lygeum
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L. spartum
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Lygeum is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family.[4][5] It is placed in its own tribe Lygeeae, which is sister to Nardeae.[6]
The only known species is Lygeum spartum, commonly called esparto grass[3][7] or albardine.[8] It is native to southern Europe and North Africa, where its distribution includes Crete, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.[8][9] It is similar to Stipa tenacissima[10] and both species are used to produce a fiber product known as esparto or esparto grass.[11]
Description
Lygeum spartum is a rhizomatous perennial grass growing up to 75 centimeters tall.[12] The rhizome and the base of the stem are scaly.[13] The leaves are threadlike but stiff[12] and tough, measuring up to 50 centimeters long.[13] The inflorescence is made up of a few long-haired spikelets each up to 4.5 centimeters long. They are wrapped in a lance-shaped bract called a spatheole.[12] This sheath is 3 to 9 centimeters long and can have a sharp point.[13]
References
- ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 140
- ↑ Tropicos, Spartum P. Beauv.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1754. Genera Plantarum, ed. 5 27, (522).
- ↑ Abdeddaim-Boughanmi, K. and M. Kaid-Harche. (2009). Structure, ultrastructure of the anther, pollen microsporogenesis and morphology of pollen grains of two populations of Lygeum spartum L. in Algeria. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4(3), 201-05.
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- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Lygeum, Sparto steppico, Esparto Grass
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lygeum spartum. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
- ↑ Lygeum spartum. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ↑ Garcı́a-Fuentes, A., et al. (2001). Review of communities of Lygeum spartum L. in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula (western Mediterranean). Journal of Arid Environments 48(3), 323-39.
- ↑ Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 1992 onwards. Lygeum. The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy. Version: 18 December 2012.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Clayton, W. D., et al. (2006 onwards). Lygeum. GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Lygeum spartum. Flora of Pakistan.
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