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Published In: Flora Unionis Rerumpublicarum Sovieticarum Socialisticarum 2: 514, 770, pl. 40, f. 12. 1934. (Fl. SSSR) 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. Per.: July-August.
Type: Type: Tian-Shan, Brocherel 395 (G).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F.P., Gilgit & Kashmir); southern USSR (Central Asia).
Comment/Acknowledgements: 3000-4500m.
Map Location: A-7 Gilgit Agency: Ishkoman Pass, 13-14000', August 1954, F. Schmid s.n. (RAW); B-7 Hazara dist.: Babusar Pass, 15 August 1954, Dr. Metz s.n. (RAW); B-8 Kashmir: Pahlgam, 13500', C. B. Clarke 31070(K); Kamri Valley, 25 August 1897, J. F. Duthie s.n. (W); Baltistan: Cho Blok, 4180m, Hans Hartmann 120 (K, RAW); C-6 Kurram dist.: Mt. Sikaram Road, 12000', J. E. T. Aitchison 949 (K); C-9 Kashmir: Fras Nag, Pir Panjal Range, 9000', R. R. & I. D. Stewart 23104 (K).

 

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Tufted perennial without rhizomes; culms 3-30cm high, erect, slender. Leaf-blades folded-setaceous, up to 13cm long, smooth on the lower (outer) surface, glaucous, with 3 sclerenchyma strands, 1 on the keel and 1 along each margin, 5-nerved, rarely 7-nerved, but then the additional nerves (the outermost pair) much smaller than the innermost pair; ligule a narrow rim 0.4-0.6mm long. Panicle narrowly oblong, 1-5cm long, the branches ascending, ± appressed to the main axis, scabrid. Spikelets 3-4-flowered, 5-6mm long (excluding the awns); lower glume 1.8-2.2mm long, 1-nerved; upper glume 2.6-3.2mm long, 3-nerved; lemmas oblong-elliptic in side-view, 3.2-4mm long, scabrid towards the tip, with an awn 1-2mm long; palea-keels scabrid or sometimes smooth below; anthers 1-1.2mm long; ovary glabrous.
 
 
 
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