Stipa pontica, P. Smirnov

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 250

19. S. pontica P. Smirnov , op. cit. 26: 268 (1929).

Stems up to 40 cm. Leaves convolute, 0-5-0-9 mm in diameter, the abaxial surface aculeate and with more or less appressed hairs, the adaxial with hairs up to 0-5 mm; sheaths glabrous; ligule of basal leaves 0-5-2 mm, of upper leaves up to 4 mm. Panicle 5-10 cm. Lemma c. 17 mm, with 2 marginal lines of hairs reaching the base of the awn, the others shorter; awn up to 40 cm, the column glabrous, the seta with hairs c. 5 mm in the middle, becoming shorter upwards. Krym; Turkey-in-Europe.?Bu Rs (K) Tu.