Poa timoleontis var. dshilgensis Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast.

12.2.Poa timoleontis var. dshilgensis(Roshev.) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 94. 1973. Fig. 9 D, E = Poa macroglossa Hack. ex Post, Fl. Syria 885. 1896. Type protologue. Aintab, May. Type specimen. Plantae montanum Syriae borealis. Ex Herb. Postian. apud. Colleg. Syriens. Protest. Aintab, May 1889, Shepard (G. Post no. 103). (lectotype, here designated: BEI [Poa macroglossa BEI. pdf, image!]; isolectotype: W [W 19160014225, ex hb. Hackel, image!]. Note. The BEI lectotype sheet has three pages of Hackel’s letter dated 16 Jun 1890 [BEI Poa macroglossa Hackel note p 1. jpg!, BEI Poa macroglossa Hackel note p 2. jpg!, BEI Poa macroglossa Hackel note p 3. jpg!]. The collector is presumably Mrs. Francis “ Fannie ” Perkins Andrews Shepard. Post (in Post and Autran 1897) noted Post himself did not reach this area until 1893 but was sent material from the region by Shepard (AKA Mrs. F. Shepard). Andrews (her maiden name) appears on some other Post herbarium labels. Fannie’s sister, Lucy C. Andrews, also worked as a missionary in the same area, but is not known for collecting plants (Soreng 2024). ≡ Poa dshilgensis Roshev., Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S. S. S. R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 2: 98. 1934 [1936]. Isonym, with Latin. Poa dshilgensis Roshev., Fl. URSS 2: 377–378, Tab 28, f. 5. 1934. Type protologue. Syr-Dar. Endem. Opisan iz okrestn. St. Dzhilga (k sev. ot Tashkenta po sboram). Fedchenko et E. G. Bobrov 1926. Type specimen. {Southern Kazakhstan}, Syr-Dar., environs of station Jilga, May 1926, B. A. Fedchenko et E. G. Bobrov (lectotype, here designated: LE [rjs IMG _ 1976. jpg, IMG _ 1977. jpg]; isolectotype: K [K 000789573, spikelet ex LE and photo]). Diagnosis. Like Poa timoleontis var. timoleontis, but with bulbiferous spikelets. Distribution and ecology. Range of the species and further east and northeast. Afghanistan, China (Xinjiang Uygur), Greece, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey. Semiarid habitats, in steppe and open forests; in Turkey, 600–2,700 m. Conservation status. None. Comments. Variety dshilgensis is the bulbiferous form of the species. Edmondson (1985), additionally, gave the following distribution in Turkey, without variety: Edirne, Kastamonu, Izmir, Eskişehir, Yozgat, Denizli, and the Greek island of Samos, but indicated bulbifery is seldom found in Turkey. However, the bulbiferous specimens of P. timoleontis (n = 19) are twice as numerous as normal-flowered specimens (n = 9), and more widespread in Turkey. Curiously, the two forms of the species were infrequently collected at the same site (n = 3). A few specimens approach P. sinaica (Soreng et Cabi 9181, 9197), and one approaches P. bulbosa (Soreng et Cabi 9271 - a). Fig. 9 D, E illustrates a bulbiferous inflorescence and spikelet. Representative specimens. Turkey. Adıyaman (Soreng et Cabi 9178, 9181). Ankara (Soreng et Kaya 9300; Soreng et Cabi 9309; Boissier V- 605 G). Antalya (Soreng et al. 8214; Soreng et Cabi 9041). Gaziantep (Soreng et Cabi 9154). Karaman (Soreng et al. 8207). Konya (Soreng et Cabi 9252, 9257 - b; Nydegger 42226 G). Malatya (Soreng et Cabi 9183; 9188, 9189, 9197, 9198 - b, 9202 - a, 9205, 9210). Mardin (Soreng et Cabi 9232 - b; Mardin (Nydegger 41320 G). Niğde (Soreng et al. 8158 - b, 8187 - c). Sivas (Soreng et Cabi 9209, immature, probably bulbiferous). Tekirdağ (Soreng et Cabi 9271 - a). VAN (Özalp, 2300 m, Özgökçe F 3017 p. p. b VANF). Greece. Parnassos (Soreng et al. 7509 *; Crete Soreng 3793 - c). Iran. (Gentry 14551 US; Rechinger et Rechinger 4832 US). Iraq. (Barkley et Brahim 1405 US). Tajikistan. (Koczkareva et al. 6652 US).