Hordeum bulbosum L.
Taxon info
Hordeum bulbosum is a perennial, outbreeding relative of the cultivated barley, with a swollen, bulb-like culm base. It is widespread in the Mediterranean region and SW Asia, with diploids in the west and tetraploids in the east, the border following more or less the Pindos mountains. Fairly common at low and moderate altitudes, it may be gregarious along roads.A
A. Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. & Tzanoudakis, D. 2013: Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. 31. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. p. 354
Distribution
(IoI NPi SPi Pe StE EC NC NE NAe WAe Kik KK EAe)
Greece (East Aegean islands present; East Central Greece present; Ionian Islands present; Kiklades present; Kriti and Karpathos present; North Aegean islands present; North Central Greece present; North Pindos present; North-East Greece present; Peloponnisos present; South Pindos present; Sterea Ellas present; West Aegean islands present)
Notes
This species comprises diploids in the W & C Mediterranean area to W Greece and tetraploids from C Greece eastwards to Afghanistan, the border following the Pindos mountains. However, the two cytotypes cannot be distinguished morphologically and a taxonomic subdivision of the species is not recommended (Jørgensen 1982).
