Explore: Flowering Glume

acute, smooth. Flowering glumes linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowed into a rather long awn. Palea as long as or longer than the flowering glume, subulately

about 3 millimeters long. The callus is elongated and barbed and the fourth glume is linear, acuminate, and awned. Wikimedia Commons has media related to

primarily recognized by the ridged surface of its sessile spikelet’s lower glume. Despite its historic importance as fodder in Asia, the grass has become

grə-MIN-ee-e(y)e), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as true grasses. It includes the cereal grasses

rice Altered color Rc - white pericarp in rice Unspecified trait Teosinte glume architecture/tga in maize/corn Many of these are mutations in regulatory

fruitcase, consisting of a cupule or depression in the rachis and a tough lower glume. This protects them from the digestive processes of ruminants that forage

The founder crops or primary domesticates are a group of flowering plants that were domesticated by early farming communities in Southwest Asia and went

Glumes are shorter than a spikelet and thinner than fertile lemma. The lower glume is ovate and have a pubescent surface. Its apex is acute and 1 awned. The

have the conspicuous reddish-purple streaking patterns adjacent to the glume margins that are found in S. bolusii and S. submarginalis. Schoenus calceolus

on the subspecies. Its flowering and fruiting time is September through November. The upper glume is purple while the lower glume is green. It may be confused