Schedonorus arundinaceus Roem. & Schult. subsp. arundinaceus

Spice Inflorescence detail In the field

Family: GRAMINEAE (POACEAE)

Genus: Schedonorus

Sinònims: Festuca arundinacea Schreb. subsp. arundinacea

Catalan common name: Festuca arundinàcia.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Dragonera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Eurosiberian

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Herbaceous communities in humid soils.

Characteristics: A caespitose Gramineae that lives in wet areas, often near dams and reservoirs. The inflorescence is very broad and loose-formed, formed by many pedicialated spikelets almost a centimetre long, short-aristae than often take on reddish tones. There are two subspecies, one with spikelets longer than a centimetre and leaves broader than 5mm in width (subsp. arundinacea), and the other has spikelets smaller than a centimetre with leaves narrower than 5 mm (subsp. fenas)