Elymus kuramensis (Elymus kuramensis)
Description
Tufted perennial;culms 30-70 cm high,erect or geniculately ascending,slender.Leaf-blades flat,6-14 cm long,2-6 mm wide,sparsely hairy above,glabrous beneath;sheaths hairy along the margins.Spike lax,3-9.5 cm long (excluding the awns),erect or slightly nodding;rhachis joints scabrid along the margins.Spikelets c.3-flowered,10-13 mm long (excluding the awns);glumes unequal,lanceolate-elliptic,with prominent scaberulous nerves,acuminate or mucronate,the lower 5-6 mm long,the upper 6-8 mm long;lemma oblong-lanceolate,6-8 mm long (excluding the awn),glabrous or minutely scabrid at the tip,produced at the tip into an awn 10-15 mm long;palea as long as the body of the lemma or very slightly longer,rounded or broadly emarginate at the tip;anthers c.2 mm long.Type: Pakistan,Aitchison 709 (BM,K).Distribution: endemic to the Kurram Valley.Similar to Elymus caninus but with ciliate sheath-margins and a broadly blunt paleatip.Known only from the type specimen.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Poaceae
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Genus: Elymus
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