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Published In: Flora Rossica 4(13): 331. 1852. (Sep 1852) (Fl. Ross. [Ledebour]) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Pr.: July-August.
Type: Type: USSR, Siberia, Turczaninow (LE).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F.P., Gilgit & Kashmir); Central Asia from Afghanistan to Siberia, Mongolia and China.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Plants with fewer-flowered spikelets and shorter glumes and lemmas have been separated as var. micranthus, but variation seems to be more or less continuous between the two extremes.

2000-4700 m.

Map Location: A-7 Gilgit Agency: Yasin, Sh. Ali 86 (K); Chitral dist.: Mastuj-Baroghil track, 8000, J. D. A. Stainton 2887 A (BM); A-8 Gilgit Agency: Naltar 10000', R. R. Stewart 26678 (K); Minapin, 6330', G. Polunin 6068 (BM); B-6 Chitral dist.: Bumbrait, anon. 25184 (K, type of var. micranthus); B-8 Kashmir: Koragbal to Badwan, 8000', R. R. Stewart 22590 (K, RAW); ibid., R. R. & I. D. Stewart 19541 (KUH); Baltistan: Skardu, 7650', C. B. Clarke 29939 (K); Chirka Khalti, c. 5 miles from Shigar towards Thandro, A. Ghafoor & Z. L. Butt 667 (KUH); Skardu to Shigar, 8000', R. R. Stewart 20487 (RAW); B-9 Baltistan: Shyok Valley, 1847, T. Thomson s.n. (K).

 

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Tufted perennial; culms 30-130 cm high, erect, slender or stout. Leaf-blades usually flat, convolute when dry, 10-30 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, smooth or scaberulous. Spike erect or sometimes nodding, 7-23 cm long. Spikelets in pairs at the nodes of the rhachis; glumes elliptic, 6-11 mm long (including the awn), almost as long as the body of the lowest lemma, conspicuously 3-5-nerved, acute or produced into a short awn up to 2 mm long; lemma elliptic, 6.5-11 mm long (excluding the awn), produced into a straight or slightly curved awn 8-15 mm long.
 
 
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