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Issue: Vol. 715 No. 3: 22 Aug. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9
Page range: 295-300
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Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia

Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Phylogeny and Systematics, Lenin Street 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Grasses Stenopoa systematics Monocots

Abstract

Pоа bashkirica, a new species from Bashkiria, South Ural (Russia) is described and illustrated. Morphologically, it is similar to P. korshinskyi, P. transbaicalica and P. argunensis but differs from the first two species with lemmas, pubescent between veins, and from P. argunensis with the distribution. From all mentioned species it differs by culms purple at the base.

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How to Cite

Olonova, M.V. (2025) Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia. Phytotaxa 715 (3): 295–300. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9