<strong><em>Agrostis pendryi</em> (Poaceae: Agrostidinae)—a new species from the Central Himalaya</strong>

Beata Paszko

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.175.1.3

Issue: Vol. 175 No. 1: 30 July 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-07-30

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.175.1.3

Page range: 29–36

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Agrostis pendryi (Poaceae: Agrostidinae)—a new species from the Central Himalaya

Beata Paszko⁺⁻

Department of Vascular Plant Systematics and Phytogeography, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland.

Agrostis griffithiana A. munroana A. pilosula Calamagrostis Nepal NW India taxonomy

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Abstract

Agrostis pendryi, a new species from Nepal and northwest India, is described and illustrated. This species is morphologically similar to A. pilosula and A. munroana, but differs from them by its shorter, weak and straight awn, and palea less than half the length of the lemma.