Stipa pulcherrima, golden feather grass is a bisexual flowering plant in the family Poaceae.
Description It is high, while its eciliate membrane is long. Its leaf-blades are erect, conduplicated, and sometimes ascend. They are long and are wide with smooth surface which can also be scaberulous and glabrous. The panicles are smooth and contracted. Also, they are elliptic and in length. They bear a few spikelets which are glabrous or ciliate and can range from in length. Compressed spikelets have only 1 floret which doesn't have rhachilla extension. Its floret callus is elongated, bearded, pungent, straight, curved and is in length. It glumes are similar to the fertile spikelet. The lower glume is long and is lanceolate. The upper glume is also lanceolated and is long.
Distribution
The species is distributed across southern, central, and eastern Europe, extending into the Caucasus and parts of western and central Asia.
Region Countries/areas Southern Europe Albania; Greece; Italy (Sicilia, Corse); Türkiye Central Europe Austria; Bulgaria; Czechia–Slovakia; Germany; Hungary; Romania; France Eastern Europe Ukraine; Krym; Central European Russia; East European Russia; South European Russia Balkan Peninsula NW. Balkan Peninsula Caucasus North Caucasus; Transcaucasus Western Asia Iran; Turkmenistan Central Asia Kazakhstan; Kirgizstan; West Siberia
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