Stipa kurdistanica

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Cataphylls evident. Rhizomes short. Culms erect; 80–150 cm long. Culm-internodes distally pubescent. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades involute; 10–20 cm long; 3–7 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous, or puberulous; hairy adaxially.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; linear; 15–35 cm long.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; subterete; 7–9 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus evident; pubescent; acute.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate, or ovate; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels; 5 -veined. Lower glume surface asperulous. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate, or ovate; 7–9 mm long; membranous; without keels; 5 -veined. Upper glume surface asperulous. Upper glume apex acuminate.

FLORETS Fertile lemma ovate; subterete; 5–6 mm long; membranous; dark brown; without keel; 7 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent. Lemma margins flat; covering most of palea. Lemma apex awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn straight, or curved; 16–22 mm long overall; without a column. Palea 1 length of lemma; 2 -veined; without keels.

FLOWER Lodicules 2. Anthers 3; anther tip smooth. Stigmas 2. Ovary glabrous.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum linear.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: Soviet Middle Asia and western Asia.

NOTES Stipeae. Fl Turk 1993.

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