Mibora, or sandgrass, is a genus of European and North African plants in the grass family.Adanson, Michel. 1763. Familles des Plantes 2: 495 in FrenchGrassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Description Mibora is a genus of very small to small annual grasses with erect or sometimes quickly ascending stems (often called culms) between long, growing in tufts. As in all grasses the leaves consist at its base of a sheath closely enveloping the culm, a free standing blade at its tip and a ligule at the inside/upside where sheath and blade meet. The sheaths are tender, shallowly grooved rounded at their back, long. The ligule is membranaceus and lacks fine hairs (or cilia). The blade is flat, folded along the midline or enrolled and long which are up to wide and have a stump tip. The spikelets consist of one fertile floret, which has 3 anthers.
Key to the species 1 Inflorescence embraced at base by a subtending leaf. Leaf blades folded along the midline or enrolled. Glumes similar in texture to the fertile lemma. Lemma ovate. Morocco.→ Mibora maroccana - Inflorescence without a leaf at its base. Leaf blades flat or enrolled. Glumes more firm than the fertile lemma. Lemma obtuse. Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, middle and southern England, Wales, and very rare in the eastern Mediterranean.The Plant List search for MiboraCabi, E. & M. Doğan. 2012. Poaceae. 690–756. In A. Güner, S. Aslan, T. Ekim, M. Vural & M. T. Babaç (eds.) Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi. Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını, IstanbulAltervista Flora Italiana, Cappellini minori, Early Sand Grass, Zwerggras, Mibora minima Introduced in the eastern USA and Canada, but does not maintain itself.→ Mibora minima
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