Aegilops

Walch
	Aegilops geniculata
Systematics
	Commelinids
Order :	Sweet grass (Poales)
Family :	Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Subfamily :	Pooideae
Tribe :	Triticeae
Genre :	Walch
Scientific name
	Aegilops
	L.

Walch ( Aegilops ) is the name of a genus from the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

description

The plants are annual. The leaves are flat. The inflorescence is an ear . The spikelets sit individually on the main axis and are all hermaphroditic, only the upper ones can be sterile and the lower ones stunted. The spikelets have 2–8 flowers. The glumes are alike, truncated and leathery, often with two or more teeth or awns, rounded on the back. The lemma is thin below, leathery above and with distinct nerves against the toothed or awned tip. The palea is two-veined.

distribution

The distribution of the species ranges from Macaronesia and the Mediterranean region to the Himalayas and from eastern Central Europe to east-central China.

Aegilops biuncialis

Aegilops cylindrica

Aegilops triuncialis

Taxonomy and systematics

For example, the genus Aegilops L. has the synonyms: Perlaria Heist. ex Fabr. , Amblyopyrum Eig , Chennapyrum Á.Löve , Orrhopygium Á.Löve and Sitopsis (Jaub. & Spach) Á.Löve .

The genus Aegilops , if kept separate from the genus Triticum , comprises about 23 species. According to WCSP it is:

Aegilops bicornis (Forssk.) Jaub. & Spach : Eastern Mediterranean area to the Arabian Peninsula.
Aegilops biuncialis Vis. (Syn .: Aegilops lorentii Hochst. ): Macaronesia, Mediterranean area to Iran.
Aegilops caudata L .: Southeast Europe to Afghanistan.
Aegilops columnaris Zhuk. : Turkey to Syria and northwestern Iran.
Aegilops comosa Sm . : Greece to western Turkey. With two subspecies.
Aegilops crassa Boiss. ex Hohen. : Southeast Turkey to Central Asia and Jordan. With two varieties.
Aegilops cylindrica Host : Eastern Central Europe to Central Asia and Pakistan.
Aegilops geniculata Roth : Canary Islands, Mediterranean area to Afghanistan.
Aegilops × insulae-cypri H.Scholz = Aegilops geniculata × Aegilops peregrina : Cyprus.
Aegilops juvenalis (Thell.) Eig : Southeastern Turkey to Central Asia.
Aegilops kotschyi Boiss. : Tunisia to Afghanistan.
Aegilops longissima Schweinf. & Muschl. : Syria to Egypt.
Aegilops mutica Boiss. : Turkey to Transcaucasia.
Neglected walch ( Aegilops neglecta Req. Ex Bertol. ): Canary Islands, Mediterranean area to Afghanistan.
Aegilops peregrina (Hack.) Maire & Weiller : Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region to Iran.
Aegilops searsii Feldman & Kislev : Syria to Jordan.
Aegilops sharonensis Eig : Israel.
Aegilops speltoides exchange : Southeastern Balkan Peninsula to Iran. With two subspecies.
Aegilops tauschii Coss. : Crimea to eastern Turkey and China (Shaanxi, Henan). With two subspecies.
Three-inch walch ( Aegilops triuncialis L. ): Mediterranean area to Central Asia and Pakistan.
Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk. : Eastern Crete, Turkey to Iran.
Aegilops uniaristata Vis. : Italy to northwestern Turkey.
Aegilops vavilovii (Zhuk.) Chennav. : Southeast Turkey to the Arabian Peninsula.
Bulbous Walch ( Aegilops ventricosa Tausch ): Mediterranean area to Transcaucasia.

literature

Hans Joachim Conert: Triticeae . In: Gustav Hegi : Illustrated flora of Central Europe . 3rd ed., Volume I, Part 3, pages 772-773. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, Hamburg, 1987. ISBN 3-489-52320-2 (description)

Individual evidence

^ Thomas Gaskell Tutin , CJ Humphries: Aegilops L. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al .: Flora Europaea, Volume 5, page 200. Cambridge University Press 1980. ISBN 0-521-20108-X .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Aegilops. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved June 21, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh Kosmos Verlag Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 . P. 400.

Web links

[Tutin-1] Thomas Gaskell Tutin , CJ Humphries: Aegilops L. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al .: Flora Europaea, Volume 5, page 200. Cambridge University Press 1980. ISBN 0-521-20108-X .

[WCSP-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Aegilops. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved June 21, 2020.

[Schönfelder2008-3] Peter Schönfelder , Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos Mediterranean flora. Franckh Kosmos Verlag Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 . P. 400.