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Parapholis C. E. Hubbard in Blumea, Suppl. 3:14. 1946. Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:317. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 595. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:266. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:246. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 528. 1976; Tutin in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:243. 1980.

Small annuals. Leaf-blades flat or convolute when dry. Spikelets 1-flowered, placed broadside to the rhachis, glumes 2, lanceolate to ovate, 3-5-nerved, sharply inflexed near their outer margin and with an asymmetrical keel, this sometimes winged; lemma 3-nerved, the 2 lateral nerves short and indistinct; ovary lobed at the apex.

A genus of 6 species in Europe and the Mediterranean region; 1 species extending to Pakistan.

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