Stipa kotuchovii Nobis (2011a: 494)

Nobis, Marcin & Gudkova, Polina D., 2016, Taxonomic notes on feather grasses (Poaceae: Stipa) from eastern Kazakhstan with typification of seven names and one new combination, Phytotaxa 245 (1), pp. 31-42 : 35

8. Stipa kotuchovii Nobis (2011a: 494)

= S. monticola Kotukhov (1998a: 11) hom. illeg., non S. monticola H. Scholz (1993: 117) . Type citation:—Saur-Tarbagataj, brachia austrooccidentalia jugi Saur, in viciniis hibernaculi Kyzylkija, 1700 m s.m., declivitas australi-orientalis, 18.VIII.1992, Ju. Kotuchov (LE).

Type (original label):—No. 19, 18 VIII 1992, Stipa sp. nova! (blizok k S. sczerbakovii ) [det. N. Tzvelev], Vostochnyi Kazakhstan, khr. Saur, v raione zimovki Kyzyl-Kiya, yugo-vost. shchebnistyi sklon, 1700 m. n. ur. m., Yu. A. Kotukhov (holotype LE!, isotypes KRA 436032!, KRA 435918!, KRA 436039!, KRA 436040!, KUZ! 2 sheets).

We found only one sheet in LE with a label and specimens matching the protologue of the species, and consider this to be the holotype. Because S. monticola is an illegitimate homonym of the species published by Scholz (1993), a new name for Kotukhov’s taxon, S. kotuchovii , was published by Nobis (2011a).

Stipa kotuchovii is morphologically very close to S. sczerbakovii . This group of taxa requires taxonomic revision (see notes under S. sczerbakovii ).