Brachypodium firmifolium

Brachypodium firmifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Brachypodium
Species: B. firmifolium
Binomial name
Brachypodium firmifolium
H.Lindb.

Brachypodium firmifolium is a yellowish or glaucous-green perennial grass with slender erect or decumbent culms up to 45 cm high. Flowering: June–July.[1]

Habitat

Igneous mountainsides, usually in damp shaded grounds by streams and cataracts, sometimes in open forest or meadows at 1000–1700 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus, locally common in the Troödos area.

References

  1. Cyprus Flora in Colour the Endemics, V. Pantelas, T. Papachristophorou, P. Christodoulou, July 1993, ISBN 9963-7931-0-X

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