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Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-30
Page range: 29–39
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Stipa dickorei sp. nov. (Poaceae), three new records and a checklist of feather grasses of China

Department of Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, PL-31-501 Kraków, Poland;
Department of Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, PL-31-501 Kraków, Poland;
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;
Laboratory of Systematics and Phylogeny of Plants, Institute of Biology, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
distribution feather grasses lemma micromorphology macromorphology Stipa taxonomy Monocots China

Abstract

Stipa dickorei sp. nov. from the Western Tibetan Plateau (China) is described. The new species is morphologically similar to S. regeliana, but they differ from each other in the length of ligules of vegetative shoots. Stipa dickorei is also similar to S. aliena, however they differ in the shape of panicle, which is contracted with straight branches in S. dickorei, and lax with flexuous branches in S. aliena. Images of macromorphological and micromorphological structures of the new taxon are provided. Additionally, new records of S. borysthenica, S. richteriana, and S. zalesskii, species not listed in the recent Flora of China, as well as a checklist of Chinese feather grasses are also presented.