Poa diaphora subsp. diaphora var. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Soreng, Cabi & L.J. Gillespie, 2018

Gillespie, Lynn J., Soreng, Robert John, Cabi, Evren & Amiri, Neda, 2018, Phylogeny and taxonomic synopsis of Poa subgenus Pseudopoa (including Eremopoa and Lindbergella) (Poaceae, Poeae, Poinae), PhytoKeys 111, pp. 69-102 : 82-83

Poa diaphora subsp. diaphora var. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Soreng, Cabi & L.J. Gillespie comb. nov.

Glyceria songarica Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey., Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 1-2. 1841. Nephelochloa songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Griseb., Fl. Ross. 4(13): 367. 1852. Nephelochloa persica var. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 7: 603. 1881. Poa songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 611. 1884. Poa persica var. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Stapf, Fl. Brit. India 7(22): 337. 1897 [1896]. Eremopoa songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Roshev., Fl. URSS 2: 431, pl. 32, f. 11. 1934. Eremopoa persica var. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Bor, Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan 532. 1960. Eremopoa altaica subsp. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Tzvelev, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 51(8): 1104. 1966. Poa diaphora subsp. songarica (Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Soreng & G.H. Zhu, Fl. China vol. 22: 266. 2006. Poa songarica var. argaea Hausskn. & Bornm. ex R.R. Mill, Fl. Turkey & E. Aegean Isl. 9: 491. 1985, nom. inval., as syn. of Eremopoa songarica .

Poa paradoxa Kar. & Kir., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 864. 1841, nom. illeg. hom. Poa subtilis Kar. & Kir., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15(3): 532. 1842. nom. nov. (cited Poa paradaxa Kar. & Kir., 1941 [entry no.] 926). Type protologue. Hab. in herbosis ad rivulum Ai deserti Soongoro-Kirghisici, Jun, Karelin & Kiriloff. Type: Hab. in herbosis ad rivulum Ai deserti Soongoro-Kirghisici, Jun 1840, Karelin & Kiriloff (Herb. Fischer no. 504) (lectotype, here designated: LE!; isotypes: P [P02663383!], W [W0028251 image!]).

Type.

Ad fl. Karatal versus montes Karatau, 13 June 1840, H. Schrenk s.n. (holotype: LE; isotype: LE).

Distribution.

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China (Xizang), Georgia, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Notes.

Poa diaphora var. songarica was recently recorded (as Eremopoa songarica ; determination verified here) from one locality in northernmost Israel (Danin and Fragman-Sapir 2016+). It was collected as a waif in Canada (Manitoba) in the 1950s ( Stevenson 1965, as E. persica ; Darbyshire 2007, as E. altaica : re-identified here), but is apparently not persistent ( Darbyshire 2007, B.A. Ford, pers. comm, 2018).

Tzvelev (1976, pg. 480) cited "In herbidis Songaria ad rivulum Tschulak [Jun 1841], Karelin & Kiriloff 2123 " (LE!) as type of P. subtilis (duplicates at BM000959360 image!, K000789846 image!, BR0000006600860 image!, P02663388!, P02663405!), but the type is the one [1840] collection cited by Karelin and Kiriloff (1841) distributed as Herb. Fischer no. 504.