Boron branched ( Latin Milium effusum ) is a typical species of herbaceous perennial plants of the genus Bor of the Cereals family ( Poaceae ).
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- Synonyms
- Agrostis effusa Lam.
- Alopecurus effusus Link ex Kunth nom. inval.
- Decandolia effusa (Lam.) T. Bastard
- Melica effusa (L.) Salisb.
- Miliarium effusum (L.) Moench
- Milium adscendens Roxb. nom. inval.
- Milium confertum L.
- Milium dubium Jacquem. ex Hook.f. nom. inval.
- Milium willdenowii Lojac.
- Paspalum effusum (L.) Raspail
Content
Botanical Description
Grass with creeping rhizomes and short underground shoots. Single smooth stems, straight, 0.7-1.5 m high.
Linear leaves up to 18 mm wide, smooth, rough at the edges. Reeds are oblong and obtuse, up to 8 mm long.
Panicles are wide and friable, from 15 to 35 cm long, with long drooping branches, covered with short spines. Spikelets are single-flowered, about 3 mm long, green, may have a slightly purple hue. Scales of spikelets of ovoid shape, webbed, convex, with three veins, slightly longer than flowering. Lower floral scales without awns , shiny, hard, after maturation become brown. [2] Flowering lasts from late spring to mid summer. Fruits in July - August.
Distribution and Ecology
It lives in the humid coniferous and deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere .
Economic Significance and Application
Sometimes cultivated as a lawn grass or as a garden plant. It can be used for planting in shady gardens to create a second plan in combination with other perennial flowering plants. Prefers shaded areas and moist soil.
Seeds are edible. Previously, bread was baked from grains ground into flour [3] .
Good forage grass. Seeds are used to feed birds [4] .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
- ↑ Ivanova, 1990 , p. 92.
- ↑ Cherepnin, 1987 , p. 14.
- ↑ Gubanov, 2002 .
Literature
- Gubanov I.A. et al. 182. Milium effusum L. - Distributed boron // Illustrated identifier of plants in Central Russia. In 3 t . - M .: T-in scientific. ed. KMK, Institute of Technology. ISS., 2002. - T. 1. Ferns, horsetails, crowns, gymnosperms, angiosperms (monocotyledons). - S. 276. - ISBN 8-87317-091-6 .
- Ivanova, E.V. Flora of Siberia = Flora Sibiriae: in 14 t. / Ed. L.I. Malysheva . - Novosibirsk: Science , Sib. Otdel., 1990. - T. 2: Poaceae (Gramineae) / ed. L.I. Malysheva, G.A. Peshkova . - S. 92. - 361 p. - 2900 copies. - ISBN 5-02-028948-5 .
- Cherepnin, L.V. Food plants of Siberia / Dr. S.-kh. Sciences L.K. Pozdnyakov. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1987 .-- 190 p. - (Man and the environment).
Links
- Milium effusum : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved February 20, 2015)
- Boron branchy in the Encyclopedia of ornamental garden plants (Retrieved February 20, 2015)