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Stipa kirghisorum P. Smirn. in Fedde, Repert. 21:232. 1925. Rozhev. & Shishkin in Kom., Fl. URSS 2:95. 1934; Ovchinnikov, Fl. Tadzh. 1:429. 1957; Tzvelev, Pl. As. Cent., Gram. 55. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70: 396. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 587. 1976.
Tufted perennial 30-70 cm high. Leaf-blades involute and setaceous, up to 1.5 mm wide when flattened, scabrid on the lower (outer) surface; ligule 1.5--3.5 mm long. Panicle narrow, few-flowered, 10-21 cm long. Glumes narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate with fragile tips, 28-40(-55) mm long, 5-nerved; lemma terete, (13-)15-18 mm long (including callus), hairy in the lower part with rows of short hairs, glabrous at the tip; callus acuminate, pungent, 2.5-4 mm long. Awn bigeniculate, articulated at the base, 18-26 cm long; column glabrous; bristle plumose with hairs 4-5 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-August.
Type: USSR, Kazakhstan, Kossinksy (MW).
Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); southern Central Asia (USSR and Sinkiang).
3300-3700m.
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