Elymus kuramensis (Melderis) Cope

Similar to Elymus caninus but with ciliate sheath-margins and a broadly blunt paleatip. Known only from the type specimen.

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.

Distribution: endemic to the Kurram Valley.

Elymus kuramensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Melderis) Cope mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1982.