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Issue: Vol. 174 No. 3: 11 July 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.174.3.6
Page range: 173–180
Abstract views: 12
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Stipa klimesii (Poaceae), a new species from Western Himalayas (India)

Department of Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, PL-31-501 Kraków, Poland Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Institute of Biology, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Department of Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, PL-31-501 Kraków, Poland;
Laboratory of Geobotany and Plant Conservation, Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 48, PL-45-052 Opole, Poland
Laboratory of Geobotany and Plant Conservation, Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 48, PL-45-052 Opole, Poland
Distribution Lemma micromorphology Macromorphology Taxonomy

Abstract

Stipa klimesii sp. nov. from the Western Himalayas (India: Ladakh) and its variety S. klimesii var. pubescens var. nov. are described. The new species is similar to S. roborowskyi but differs by its longer anthecium, longer ligules of vegetative shoots, longer hairs on seta and shorter awns. Stipa klimesii is also similar to S. purpurea, but differs by longer ligules of vegetative shoots, shorter awns, slightly shorter hairs on seta and by the character of the panicle, which is compressed and with straight branches in S. klimesii vs. lax and with flexuous branches in S. purpurea. Epidermal patterns of the lemma in S. klimesii and both above-mentioned species, were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Images of macromorphological and micromorphological structures are provided.