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Published In: Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles. Seconde Partie: Sciences Naturelles 6,4(3–4): 372. 1841. (Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math., Seconde Pt. Sci. Nat.) Name publication detail
 

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Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-September.
Type: Type: Northwest India, Boyle 72 (LE).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); Himalayas and Madras.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A polymorphic species with a number of named, but not very distinct, varieties: var. pilosula has a very large, effuse panicle; var. filifolia (in Madras only) has filiform basal leaves; var. wallichiana is a small plant with a small, bright purple panicle. For var. royleana, see below.

1400-3700 m.

Agrostis munroana x Agrostis pilosula is fairly common where the parents grow together. It is largely male-sterile, but some caryopses develop in some plants and these may be viable. It is intermediate between the parents, having the narrow, purple-tinged panicle of Agrostis munroana and the longer awn of Agrostis pilosula. The palea is about half as long as the lemma. The specimens available seem to corres¬pond with Agrostis royleana Trin. (Agrostis pilosula Trin. var. royleana (Trin.) Bor) but the lectotype has not yet been examined for male-sterility.

Map Location: B-6 Dir dist.: Dir-Gujar, A. Rahman Beg 1318 (RAW); B-7) Kashmir: Leepa Valley, Muzaffarabad, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 5066 (KUH); Hazara dist.: Thandiani, 9000', E. Nasir 24861 (K); Shogran, Kagan Valley, 7000', Kamal Ibrahim 6903 (RAW); 9 miles from Nathia Gali on way to Abbottabad, S.A.Faruqi & M. Qaiser 3503 (KUH); Swat dist.: Bahrein, 5000', R. R. Stewart 24602 (K); B-8 Kashmir: Pahlgam, 11000', R.R. Stewart 21791 (K); C-7 Hazara dist.: Dunga Gali, Murree Hills, 8000', R.R. Stewart 23423 (K); Changla Gali, Murree Hills, E.W. Trotter 80 (RAW); Rawalpindi dist.: Murree Hills, 6-7000', R.R. Stewart 23425a (K); ibid., R. R. Stewart & E. Nasir 29133 (RAW); C-8 Kashmir: Basaoli, 6000', C. B. Clarke 31593 (K, syntype of Calamagrostis pilosula var. scabra); Pir Panjal, V. Jacquemont 97 (K; type of Calamagrostis jacquemontii); Trarkhel, Poonch, October 1956, A.H. Khan s.n. (RAW).

 

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Tufted annual; culms (10-)35-95 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes decumbent and rooting from the lower nodes. Leaf-blades flat, (3-) 15-35 cm long, (2-)3-6 mm wide, scabrid on both surfaces; ligule 4-6 mm long, truncate. Panicle broadly ovate to lanceolate, (5-)10-30 cm long, loose and open or ± contracted, green or suffused with purple; inflated tip of pedicel smooth or almost so. Spikelets 2.5-3.5(-4.5) mm long, breaking up at maturity above the persistent glumes; glumes acute, awnless, scabrid on the keel; lemma hairy, 2-3 mm long, acute, awned; awn 4-6 mm long, bent, twisted below and arising from near the base of the lemma; palea not more than a third the length of the lemma; anthers 1-1.5 mm long.
 
 
 
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