Festuca bellula Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 7: 594. 1881. Eremopoa bellula (Regel) Roshev., Fl. URSS 2: 431, pl. 32, f. 12. 1934.

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 : 87

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scientific name	Festuca bellula Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 7: 594. 1881. Eremopoa bellula (Regel) Roshev., Fl. URSS 2: 431, pl. 32, f. 12. 1934.
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Type protologue.

Ad fontes calidos Araschan Bulak in Turkestania occidentali, Krause s.n. Type: Taschkenter Alatau, Araschan Bulak, 11 Jun 1871, ( Hieronymous ) Krause s.n. (holotype: LE [only one collection cited]).

Notes.

Eremopoa bellula was applied by several authors to small densely tufted alpine annual plants of south-central and southwest Asia, which we recognise as P. diaphora var. alpina (based on Poa persica var. alpina Boissier [1884]). Tzvelev (1976, pg. 480) noted that the holotype collection of E. bellula appeared to be a mix of altaica ( diaphora ) and songarica forms ("p.p. max" = E. altaica subsp. songarica , somewhat intermediate between this subsp. and subsp. altaica , and "p.p. minor" = E. altaica subsp. altaica ); he considered E. bellula to be a synonym of E. altaica subsp. songarica. Further study is needed to clarifiy the placement of Eremopoa bellula and determine if it is synonymous with P. diaphora var. alpina .