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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Stipa kungeica
HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped moderately. Culms 30–50 cm long. Culm-internodes distally glabrous, or pubescent. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 4 mm long. Leaf-blades filiform; convolute; 0.4–0.7 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface ribbed.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle; embraced at base by subtending leaf.
Panicle open; linear; 6–10 cm long.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; subterete; 40–50 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; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 40–50 mm long; membranous; without keels. Upper glume apex acuminate.
FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; subterete; 12–14 mm long; coriaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; hairy below; hairy in lines. Lemma margins convolute; covering most of palea. Lemma apex awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn bigeniculate; 200–250 mm long overall; with twisted column; limb plumose; with 6–7 mm long hairs. Column of lemma awn 40–50 mm long; pubescent; with 1.5 mm long hairs. Palea without keels.
FLOWER Anthers 3. Stigmas 2. Ovary glabrous.
FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; fusiform. Hilum linear.
DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: Soviet Middle Asia.
NOTES Stipeae. Golosk 1995.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.