Poa stepposa (Krylov) Roshev.

Olovona, Marina V. & Nikolin, E. G., 2018, Bluegrasses (Poa L., Poaceae) of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, an annotated checklist, Adansonia (3) 40 (7), pp. 89-102 : 95-96

26. Poa stepposa (Krylov) Roshev.

In Flora Turkmenii 1: 145 (1932a); Flora of the USSR 2: 401, 754 (1934). — Tzvelev, Arctic Flora of the USSR 2: 151 (1964). — Perfiljeva, Identification Book of High Plants of Yakutia: 75 (1974). — Olonova, Flora of Siberia 2: 185 (1990).

P. versicolor subsp. stepposa (Krylov) Tzvelev, Novosti Systematiki Vysshikh Rasteniy 9: 51 (1972); Grasses of the USSR: 472 (1976). LECTOTYPUS. — “ Altai, Katunskie belki, larch forests between Bortuldag and Kair, along banks of rivulet, 25.VII.1903. P. Krylov” (LE!) ( Tzvelev 1976: 472). — Basionym: P. attenuata var. stepposa Krylov. — Steppes, dry rocky and gravel slopes, among dry thinned larch forests: all districts but Ol.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. — East Eur., Cauc., Sib., Rus. Far East, Middle Asia, Jung.-Kashg., Mong.

REMARK

Sometimes this species is synonymed with P. transbaicalica Roshev. (Peshkova 1979) , nevertheless P. transbaicalica differs with more broad panicle and it is taller as a whole.