拟短芒大麦草 ni duan mang da mai cao

Hordeum nevskianum Bowden, Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 7: 396. 1965; Critesion brevisubulatum subsp. nevskianum (Bowden) A. Löve; C. nevskianum (Bowden) Tzvelev; H. brevisubulatum var. nevskianum (Bowden) Tzvelev.

Culms densely pubescent at nodes. Leaf blade abaxial epidermis with sinuous long cells, silica cells very dense. Lemma of central spikelet pubescent, but hairs usually sparser and shorter than in subsp. turkestanicum. Fl. and fr. summer. 2n = 14, 28*.

Saline meadows, salt steppes, dry valleys, rarely as a weed; 1500–5000 m. Qinghai, Shaanxi, Xinjiang [N Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Russia (W Siberia)].