Stipa crassiculmis, 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 : 248-249

5. S. crassiculmis P. Smirnov , Feddes Repert. 22: 375 (1926).

Stems 3-4 mm in diameter, glabrous below, hairy near the panicle. Leaves few, c. 2 mm in diameter, junciform, strongly aculeolate-scabrid on the abaxial surface, with minute, acute papillae on the sides of the ribs on the adaxial surface; sheaths hairy near the mouth; ligule of basal leaves 1-2-5 mm, of upper leaves (5—)7—10(— 15) mm, ciliate. Panicle contracted. Glumes c. 80 mm. Lemma 21-26 mm, the ventral line of hairs reaching the base of the awn; awn 34-40 cm, the column scabrid, the seta plumose, with hairs up to 7 mm. E.C. Europe and C. part of Balkan peninsula. Bu Cz Gr Hu Ju Rs (W).

Represented in Europe by subsp. euroanatolica Martinovskÿ , Bot. Jahrb. 87: 395 (1967). Subsp. crassiculmis occurs in S.C. Asia (Turkmenistan).