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Brachypodium
Genus of grasses From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brachypodium is a genus of plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The genus is classified in its own tribe Brachypodieae.[11]
Flimsy upright stems form tussocks. Flowers appear in compact spike-like racemes with 5-25 flowers on each short-stalked spikelet in summer. Leaves are flat or curved.[12][13]
According to a study published in 2010, there is evidence of Brachypodium and cattail (Typha spp.) residues occurring on prehistoric human grinding tools dated 28,000 years ago from Bilancino in central Italy.[14] Another contemporaneously published study stated that the grain residues resemble Brachypodium, based on a comparison to two modern specimens: "Among these, the grains, which are slightly angular, with hardly visible centric, point-shaped hila and adequate dimensions (in the sample measuring 9–14 μm), appeared very similar to those of Brachypodium or related genera."[15]
- Brachypodium × ambrosii - Spain
- Brachypodium × apollinaris - Spain
- Brachypodium arbusculum - Canary Islands
- Brachypodium bolusii - Lesotho, South Africa
- Brachypodium × cugnacii - Denmark, Ireland, France, Czech Republic
- Brachypodium × diazii - Spain
- Brachypodium distachyon - Mediterranean, Sahara, Sahel, southwest Asia from Portugal + Cape Verde to Sudan + Ukraine + Tibet
- Brachypodium firmifolium - Cyprus
- Brachypodium flexum - Africa from Sierra Leone to KwaZulu-Natal + Madagascar
- Brachypodium humbertianum - Madagascar
- Brachypodium kawakamii - Taiwan
- Brachypodium kotschyi - Turkey
- Brachypodium madagascariense - Madagascar
- Brachypodium mexicanum - Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Brachypodium perrieri - Madagascar
- Brachypodium phoenicoides - Mediterranean from Portugal + Morocco to Greece
- Brachypodium pinnatum - Africa + Eurasia from Ireland + Morocco to China + Yakutia
- Brachypodium pringlei - Mexico (Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila)
- Brachypodium retusum - Mediterranean + nearby areas from Portugal + Morocco to Ethiopia + Caucasus
- Brachypodium sylvaticum - Africa + Eurasia from Ireland + Morocco to Korea + New Guinea
- formerly included[4]
numerous species once considered members of Brachypodium but now considered better suited to other genera: Agropyron Anthosachne Arundinella Brachyelytrum Brachysteleum Catapodium Cutandia Distichlis Elymus Festuca Festucopsis Lolium Micropyrum Poa Ptychomitrium Rostraria Triticum Vulpia
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