Lolium L.

  • Authority

    Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lolium L.

  • Description

    Description - Spikelets several-flowered, solitary and sessile, placed edgewise to the continuous rachis, one edge fitting to the alternate concavities, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; first glume wanting (except on the terminal spikelet), the second outward, strongly 3 to 5-nerved, equaling or exceeding the second floret ; lemmas rounded on the back, 5 to 7-nerved, obtuse, acute, or awned.

  • Common Names

    ryegrass