Foxtail (diaspore) - Gallery

Gallery

  • The spike of Hordeum murinum disarticulates into clusters of three spikelets

  • Each spikelet cluster is held together by a portion of the rachis

  • Spikelet cluster viewed by scanning electron microscope

  • The rachis segment, sometimes called a "callus", is hardened, and covered with retrorse barbs

  • Rachis segment viewed by scanning electron microscope. Note the retrorse barbs on both the rachis and the pedicels.

  • Retrose barbs on lemma.

  • Retrorse barbs and trichomes on lemma.

  • H. murinum

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