Lygeum
| albardine esparto grass | |
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| Lygeum spartum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Tribe: | Lygeeae J. Presl (1846) |
| Genus: | Lygeum Loefl. ex L. |
| Species: | L. spartum |
| Binomial name | |
| Lygeum spartum Loefl. ex L. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
MHNT
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[1][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
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 140
- ↑ Tropicos, Spartum P. Beauv.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Judziewicz, Emmet J.; Filgueiras, Tarciso S.; Davis, Jerrold I.; Morrone, Osvaldo (2015). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (2): 117–137. doi:10.1111/jse.12150. ISSN 1674-4918.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Lygeum, Sparto steppico, Esparto Grass
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 Clayton, W. D., et al. (2006 onwards). Lygeum. GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
- 1 2 3 Lygeum spartum. Flora of Pakistan.
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