Brachypodium firmifolium

Brachypodium firmifolium is a yellowish or glaucous-green perennial grass with slender erect or decumbent culms up to 45 cm high. Flowering: June–July.[1]

Brachypodium firmifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Brachypodium
Species:
B. firmifolium
Binomial name
Brachypodium firmifolium

Habitat

Igneous mountainsides, usually in damp shaded grounds by streams and cataracts, sometimes in open forest or meadows at 1000–1700 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus, locally common in the Troödos area.

References

  1. Cyprus Flora in Colour the Endemics, V. Pantelas, T. Papachristophorou, P. Christodoulou, July 1993, ISBN 9963-7931-0-X
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