17a. Elymus gmelinii var. gmelinii
真穗披碱草(原变种) zhen sui pi jian cao (yuan bian zhong)
Triticum caninum Linnaeus var. gmelinii Ledebour, Fl. Altaic. 1: 118. 1829 ["gmelini"]; Agropyron caninum (Linnaeus) P. Beauvois var. gmelinii (Ledebour) Pease & A. H. Moore; A. gmelinii (Ledebour) Scribner & J. G. Smith (1897), not (Trinius) P. Candargy (1901); A. turczaninowii Drobow; A. turczaninowii var. tenuisetum Ohwi; Elymus gmelinii subsp. tenuisetus (Ohwi) A. Löve; Roegneria gmelinii (Ledebour) Kitagawa; R. turczaninowii (Drobow) Nevski; R. turczaninowii var. pohuashanensis Keng; R. turczaninowii var. tenuiseta (Ohwi) H. L. Yang & C. P. Wang; Semeiostachys turczaninowii (Drobow) Drobow.
Culms 60–80 cm tall, 1.5–2 mm in diam. at base. Glumes unequal: proximal one 6–11 mm, distal one 9–12 mm. Lemma awn 2–4 cm. Fl. and fr. Jun–Jul. 2n = 28.
Forest margins, mountain slopes, roadsides; 1300–2300 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang [Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan].