An annual herb with erect or geniculately ascending Culms and pilose Leaf-sheaths that has ciliate oral hairs and falcate auricles. Leaf-blades are 6–12 cm long; 1.5–4 mm wide with glabrous or pilose surface and ciliate margins. Inflorescence composed of racemes; deciduous as a whole. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex.
Libyan Desert Oases, Nubian Desert Oases, Gebel Oweinat, Mareotic Sector, North Sinai, Isthmic Desert, RGalala Desert
Turkey, Cyprus, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Sandy soils.
Annual
Height: to 40 cm
Aegilops kotschyi (syn. Aegilops triuncialis var. kotschyi L. (Boiss.) Boiss., Aegilops triuncialis ssp. kotschyi (Boiss.) Zhuk., Aegilops geniculata Fig. & De Not. nom, Aegilops variabilis Eig, Triticum kotschyi (Boiss.) Bowden, Triticum triunciale ssp. kotschyi (L.) Raspail (Boiss.) Asch. & Graebn.) is a member of the grass family, Poaceae, native to the Levant.
Elsewhere it can be a weed. This plant is known or likely to be susceptible to barley mild mosaic bymovirus.
Aegilops kotschyi (syn. Aegilops triuncialis var. kotschyi L. (Boiss.) Boiss., Aegilops triuncialis ssp. kotschyi (Boiss.) Zhuk., Aegilops geniculata Fig. & De Not. nom, Aegilops variabilis Eig, Triticum kotschyi (Boiss.) Bowden, Triticum triunciale ssp. kotschyi (L.) Raspail (Boiss.) Asch. & Graebn.) is a member of the grass family, Poaceae, native to the Levant.
Elsewhere it can be a weed. This plant is known or likely to be susceptible to barley mild mosaic bymovirus.
