Poa kurdistanica Chrtek & Hadac, Candollea

4.Poa kurdistanicaChrtek & Hadač, Candollea 25: 260–261. 1970. Type protologue. Iraq, MRO: Sarcal, sub monte Helgurd, 2200 m; 7 Jul 1960, Hadač 2175 (holotype: PR {n. v.}). Description. Cespitose, glaucescent, bulbous at base. Culms 20–30 cm tall, rigid, conspicuously compressed, scabrous. Leaf sheaths scabrous, brownish-violet; ligules of upper leaf 1–1.5 mm long; ligules of lower leaves ca 1 mm long, glabrous; blades of middle culm 1.5–2 mm wide, scabrous; flag - leaf blades 2.4–4 mm long, 1 mm wide. Panicles 5–9 cm long, dense, contracted, axis scabrous. Spikelets 4–5 mm long, usually 2 - flowered; lower glumes 2.6–3 mm; upper glumes 2.8–3.1 mm long, lemmas 3–3.2 mm long, keeled, keel to 2 / 3, marginal veins to 1 / 4, pubescent, glabrous elsewhere, apex usually violet-brownish; rachilla glabrous; callus [presumably glabrous]. Flowers staminate?; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm long. Distribution and ecology. Iraq. High mountains. Comments. This taxon is known to RJS only from the original description. The base was described as distinctly bulbous, culms as rigid and conspicuously flattened, the lemmas as pubescent on the keel and marginal veins. Callus hairs were not mentioned, but the rachilla was said to be glabrous. The authors indicated the collection was apparently staminate and the taxon might be dioecious, which seems doubtful to RJS. Hadač collections should be at PR but the Type has not been found there or at PRC (Otkar Sida, pers. comm. 2024). Hadač 2174 [PR 592497, image!], from Iraq, Širzawa, pes merid. Montis Helgurd, 11 Jun 1960, was det as Poa “ kurdistantica ” (species det. added later), but is clearly a species of P. sect. Stenopoa is possibly P. araratica Trautv., or vel. affin.