Puccinellia gabrieljanae

HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped loosely. Culms erect; 50–100 cm long. Leaf-sheaths open for most of their length. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 2–4.5 mm long; scaberulous on abaxial surface. Leaf-blades flat, or convolute; 1–3 mm wide; grey-green. Leaf-blade surface ribbed; grooved adaxially; scaberulous; rough abaxially.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; pyramidal; loose, or effuse; 10–25 cm long. Primary panicle branches spreading; 5–7 -nate. Panicle branches scaberulous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 5–6 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 7–8 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; dissimilar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate; 0.8–1 mm long; 0.66 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex obtuse, or acute. Upper glume ovate; 1.5–1.7 mm long; 0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; without keels.

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong, or obovate; 2.3–2.7 mm long; membranous; much thinner above; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; hairy at base. Lemma apex truncate. Palea 2 -veined. Palea keels scabrous; ciliate; adorned below; with 0.33 of their length adorned. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 1.2–1.4 mm long.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: Caucasus.

NOTES Poeae. Tsvelev 2014.

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