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Published In: Trudy Sredne-Aziatskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriya 8b, Botanika 17: 8. 1934. (Trudy Sredne-Aziatsk. Gosud. Univ., Ser. 8b, Bot.) Name publication detail
 

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Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: November-April, or longer.
Type: Type: “In desertis Kahirinis”.
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan); North and north tropical Africa; Egypt and Arabia to Baluchistan; Central Asia.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A desert species.
Illustration: Asthenatherum forskaolii (Vahl) Nevski (Illustration)
Map Location: E-2 Chagai dist.: Nok Kundi to Amir Chah, H. Santapau 265 (K).

 

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Loosely tufted perennial with erect or shortly decumbent, wooly culms 5-60 cm high, and very thick, sand-covered roots. Leaf-blades glaucous, linear, pungent, up to 6 cm long and 3 mm wide (when flat),usually hairy on both surf-faces; sheaths lax, often scarious below, covered with silky hairs. Panicle dense, narrow, up to 15 cm long and 2 cm wide, partly enclosed in the spathe-like upper-most leaf-sheath. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, crowded, 7-10 mm long, pale yellow or tinged with purple; glumes lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, subequal, as long as the spikelet; body of lowest lemma 2.1-2.5 mm long, the lobes 1.6-2.2 mm long; awn 2-4.5 mm long; anthers 3, 0.7-1.2 mm long.
 
 
 
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