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Cape Wild Barley

Hordeum capense

Also called Wild Barley

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
S. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Hordeum capense is a species of wild barley native to South Africa and Lesotho. An allotetraploid, it arose from ancestors with the Xa and I Hordeum genomes.

Other Hordeum plants

Hordeum aegiceras · Arizona barley · Hordeum bogdanii · Meadow barley · Hordeum brevisubulatum · Bulbous barley · California Barley · Hordeum chilense · Hordeum comosum · Hordeum cordobense · Dwarf barley · Two Rowed Barley

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hordeum capense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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