| Koeleria asiatica Domin | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Koeleria cairnsiana Hult. | ||
| Description | Tufted, with subterranean runners; culms pubescent, slender, 10-35 cm tall, surrounded by old leaf bases; ligules 0.4—0.6 mm long, erose; basal leaves flat, 1.5— 2.5 mm wide, some involute, appearing nearly filiform; culm leaves short; panicle cylindrical to obovoid, contracted; glumes glabrous or nearly so; lemmas finely pilose, without awn. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, windswept places on tundra, sandy soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Described from Taimyr. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.