Puccinellia stapfiana R. R. Stewart

Known only from the two specimens cited above.

Perennial, tufted. Culms erect or obliquely ascending, 20–40 cm tall. Leaf sheaths dense at culm base, terminal sheath reaching panicle; ligule ca. 1 mm; leaf blades conduplicate, 3–10 cm, 1–2.5 mm wide, margins and adaxial surface scabrid. Panicle narrow, 5–10 × ca. 1.5 cm; branches 2 or 3 per node, obliquely ascending, scabrid, 2–3 cm, lower part naked, upper part with 2–4 spikelets. Spikelets 5–6 mm, tinged with purple at maturity, florets 2–4; glume apex obtuse or acuminate, lower glume 2–2.2 mm, upper glume 2.5–2.8 mm; lemmas 3–3.5(–4) mm, glabrous, margins ciliate, finely toothed, apex obtuse; palea keels smooth or upper part scabrid, anthers 1.5–2.2 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul.

Tufted perennial; culms 30-45 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades folded, 5-10 cm long, 1-25 mm wide, slightly glaucous, scaberulous above. Panicle linear or lanceolate, 6-11 cm long, the branches bare in the lower part, scabrid, ascending. Spikelets 5-6 mm long, 2-4-flowered, pallid or tinged with purple; glumes elliptic, blunt, minutely serrulate-ciliate on the margins, the lower 1.5-2.2 mm long, 1-nerved, the upper 2-2.8 mm long, 3-nerved; lemmas 3-3.5 mm long, broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, serrulate-ciliate on the margins towards the top, otherwise glabrous, the mid-nerve reaching the tip; palea keels scabrid above, smooth below; anthers 2 mm long.

NW Xizang [India, Pakistan].

Distribution: Kashmir, endemic.

Alpine grassy places, saline sandy lake shores, marshy meadows; 4000–4800 m.

Glyceria poaeoides Stapf in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 7: 348. 1896 ["1897"], not Puccinellia poaeoides Keng (1938).