''Hordeum capense'' is a species of
wild barley
''Hordeum spontaneum'', commonly known as wild barley or spontaneous barley, is the wild form of the grass in the family Poaceae that gave rise to the cereal barley (''Hordeum vulgare''). Domestication is thought to have occurred on two occasio ...
native to South Africa and Lesotho.
An allotetraploid, it arose from ancestors with the Xa and I ''Hordeum'' genomes.
References
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capense
Plants described in 1794