Taxonomy: Fam. Poaceae// Genus: Phleum// Species: Phleum nodosum L.
Determined according to the botanical key provided by Humphries in Tutin et al. (1980) as Phleum pratense subsp. bertolonii (DC.) Bornm. in Bot. Jahrb.61, Beibl. 140: 157 (1928). The accepted name in The Euro+Med PlantBase (Valdés et al., 2009+) is Phleum nodosum L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 871. 1759.
Lifeform: Perrenial; hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.
Distribution: Native to Azores, Europe to Iran; Northwest Africa according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).
Habitat: Open habitats – mountain pasture and rocky terrains.
Flowering period: Summer: JUN.
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Phleum L. Humphries, C.J. in Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (1980). Flora Europaea. Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 239 – 241.
Phleum nodosum. Valdés, B. & Scholz, H.; with contributions from Raab-Straube, E. von & Parolly, G. (2009+): Poaceae (pro parte majore). Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published at https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/5265eb1b-fff7-48d1-a1c6-3fce03cc7bb7 [Accessed 21.06.2024].
