Puccinellia thomsonii (Stapf ex Hook. fil.) R. R. Stewart

Known only from 3 specimens collected at Puga at above 5170 m.

Perennial, densely tufted. Culms stout, 20–40 cm tall, 1.5–3 mm in diam., 3–5-noded, nodes often geniculate. Leaf sheaths loose, terminal sheath ca. 10 cm, often enclosing base of inflorescence; ligule ca. 3 mm, broadly ovate; leaf blade flat or conduplicate or inrolled, 6–18 cm, 1–3 mm wide, margins and adaxial surface scabrid. Panicle spreading, 12–20 × 2–3 cm; branches paired, 3–5 cm, obliquely ascending, scabrid, lower part naked. Spikelets 5–9 mm, florets 3–5; glumes oblong, apex acuminate, lower glume 1.8–2.5(–3) mm, upper glume 2.2–3.2 mm; lemma 3.5–4(–4.5) mm, glabrous, keeled toward apex, apex acuminate; palea keels smooth on lower part, scabrid upward; anthers 2–2.6 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul.

Tufted perennial; culms 20-55 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades flat, folded or convolute, 6-12 cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, glaucous, scaberulous above. Panicle contracted or spreading, 7-19 cm long, the branches ascending, bare in the lower part, scabrid. Spikelets 6-9 mm long, 3-5-flowered, variegated or deeply suffused with purple; glumes oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, the lower 1.5-25 mm long, 1-nerved, the upper 2-3.2 mm long, 3-nerved; lemmas 3.5-4.5 mm long, elliptic, acute, glabrous, the mid-nerve reaching the tip; palea keels smooth below, scabrid above; anthers 2-3 mm long.

Xizang [Pakistan].

Distribution: Kashmir, endemic.

Open basins; 4000–5200 m.

Glyceria thomsonii Stapf in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 7: 347. 1896 ["1897"]; Atropis thomsonii (Stapf) Pampanini.