Description
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Culms densely tufted, slender, smooth, glabrous. Leaf blade glaucous green, linear, flat or subinvolute, to 2.5 cm wide, abaxial surface smooth, adaxial surface scabrous. Spike erect, lax, 5–10 cm. Spikelets 1 at each node, pale green, 1.5–2 cm, with 3–5 florets. Glumes subulate-linear, somewhat lanceolate and broadened at base, gradually tapering toward apex, 0.5–0.75 mm wide, veinless, glabrous; proximal glume 0.3–0.6 cm, apex acute or shortly aristate; distal glume 0.6–1.2 cm, apex with awn. Lemma broadly lanceolate, (0.9–)1–1.2 cm, obscurely 5-veined, smooth, glabrous; awn 2–5 mm, scabrous. Fl. and fr. May–Jun. 2n = 28.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Stony slopes. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan].
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Synonym
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Aneurolepidium aemulans Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 1: 17. 1933; Elymus aemulans (Nevski) Nikiforova.
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