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Plants of seeds of Hordeum spontaneum and H. agriocrithon were collected from eight villages in Ladakh, north western India. This is the furthest east that H. spontaneum has been reported. It is the most westerly occurrence and largest find of H. agriocrithon in the Tibetan and Himalayan region. It is possible that H. agriocrithon occurs in Ladakh, not as a hybrid swarm resulting from a cross between H. spontaneum and sin-rowed cultivated barley, but as a pure population.
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Witcombe, J.R. Two-rowed and six-rowed wild barley from the western Himalaya. Euphytica 27, 601–604 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00043189
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