Puccinellia minuta Bor

So far this dwarf species is known only from the type.

Perennial, small, densely tufted. Culms 3–8 cm tall, glabrous. Leaf sheaths clustered at base; ligule ca. 1 mm; leaf blades conduplicate or inrolled, 1–2 cm, 0.6–1.2 mm wide, margins scabrid. Panicle contracted to spikelike, erect, ca. 2 × 0.5 cm; branches 2 or 3 per node, ca. 0.5 cm, ascending, smooth; spikelets ca. 3.5 mm, purple tinged, florets 2 or 3; glumes keeled, shortly acuminate, lower glume ca. 0.8 mm, upper glume ca. 1.2 mm, 1-veined; lemmas lanceolate, 2.2–2.3(–2.4) mm, glabrous, apex slightly acuminate; anthers 0.6–0.8 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul.

Small tufted perennial; culms up to 5 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades convolute, 0.5-1.5 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, green, faintly scaberulous above. Panicle contracted, 1-2 cm long, the branches smooth, short and ascending. Spikelets 3-4 mm long, 2-3-flowered, green, variegated with purple; glumes elliptic or oblong, blunt, the lower 0.75-1 mm long, 1-nerved, the upper 1-1.5 mm long, 1-nerved; lemmas 2.2-2.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong, minutely emarginate, glabrous, the mid-nerve reaching the tip and excurrent as a very short mucro; palea keels scabrid above, smooth below; anthers 0.75-1 mm long.

Qinghai, Xizang [Pakistan].

Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F.P.), endemic.

Alpine sandy lake shores, saline meadows; 4000–5100 m.

?Puccinellia platyglumis L. Liu.

Puccinellia minuta là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Bor miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1952.

侏碱茅（学名：Puccinellia minuta）为禾本科碱茅属下的一个种。