Taxon: Hordeum murinum L. subsp. glaucum (Steud.) Tzvelev

See other conspecific taxa:

• Hordeum murinum (21 accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. leporinum (15 accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. montanum (no accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. murinum (no accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. setariurum (no accessions)

Common names:

• smooth barley   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• spädkorn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of barley   (fide Divers Barley 248. 2003)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Grass SAfr)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia [n.]
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.e.]; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Greece - Crete
  Southwestern Europe: France - Corsica; Portugal; Spain [s.]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [e. & s.]
  New Zealand: New Zealand - South Island
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte
  Canada [s.w.]
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia - La Paz
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Blattner, F. R. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of Hordeum (Poaceae) as inferred by nuclear rDNA ITS sequences. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 33:289–299. [based on ITS data the sister affinity of this taxon with I-genome carriers (H. bulbosum & H. vulgare) was weakly supported indicating " a nearly simultaneous split of the basal lineages" in the genus].
• Bothmer, R. von & N. Jacobsen. 1985. Origin, taxonomy, and related species. In: American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy; a series of monographs. 26:35.
• Bothmer, R. von et al., eds. 2003. Diversity in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding, vol. 7. [considers all wild species of Hordeum, except H. bulbosum, as part of the tertiary gene pool].
• Bothmer, R. von. 1996. Distribution and habitat preferences in the genus Hordeum in Iran and Turkey. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 98B(suppl.):114.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Doebley, J. et al. 1992. Chloroplast DNA variation and the phylogeny of Hordeum (Poaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 79:576–584. [used one accession of this annual diploid taxon that clustered together with other cytotypes of the other subspp., but supporting an ancient genome differentiation from other ones in Hordeum].
• El-Rabey, H. A. et al. 2002. Speciation and species separation in Hordeum (Poaceae) resolved by discontinuous molecular markers. Pl. Biol. 4:567–575.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Faruqi, S. A. 1980. Studies on Lybian grasses VI. An annotated catalogue and key to the species. Willdenowia 10:197. [as H. glaucum].
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Jacobsen, N. & R. von Bothmer. 1995. Taxonomy in the Hordeum murinum complex (Poaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 15:457.
• Jakob, S. S. & F. R. Blattner. 2009. Two extinct diploid progenitors were involved in allopolyploid formation in the Hordeum murinum (Poaceae: Triticeae) taxon complex. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.021.
• Komatsuda, T. et al. 1999. Phylogeny in the genus Hordeum based on nucleotide sequences closely linked to the vrs1 locus (row number of spikelets). Genome 42:973–981.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nishikawa, T. et al. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Hordeum using three chloroplast DNA sequences. Genome 45:1157–1166. [used one accession of this taxon as a base for discussing polyploid affinities in the genus; obtained 1 (of 8) subclade with all cytotypes (subspp.), suggesting maternal parents of polyploids must be lower-ploidy H. murinum].
• Petersen, G. & O. Seberg. 2003. Phylogenetic analyses of the diploid species of Hordeum (Poaceae) and a revised classification of the genus. Syst. Bot. 28:293–306.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramineas de Bolivia.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:396.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [as H. glaucum].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. [= H. glaucum Steud.].
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Critesion glaucum (Steud.) Á. Löve
  
• (≡) Hordeum glaucum Steud. (basionym)
  
• (=) Hordeum stebbinsii Covas
  

Check other web resources for Hordeum murinum L. subsp. glaucum (Steud.) Tzvelev:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico

Images:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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