taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FE879CAC1FFFBC60A4FC11B6C9FBDD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: Poa bashkirica is morphologically similar to P. transbaicalica, P. korshinskyi and P. argunensis and differs from the first two species with lemmas, pubescent between veins and purple-tinged stems at the base, and from P. argunensis with distribution (TABLE 1).	en	Olonova, Marina V. (2025): Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia. Phytotaxa 715 (3): 295-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9
03FE879CAC1FFFBC60A4FC11B6C9FBDD.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: — RUSSIA, Сhelyabinsk Oblast: Verkhneuralsk District, 2.5 km SW from Moskovo village, [53.954 o N, 59.109 ° E], shady cliffs, 11 June 2007, N. V. Zolotareva s. n. (TK 006244!). Plant perennial. Culm tufted, 25 – 35 (45) cm tall, erect, purple at the base, sparsely scabrid below the panicle and nodes because of short artrose prickles, or almost smooth; uppermost node about 1 / 3 of culm. Lateral shoots all extravaginal with cataphylls at base, all shoots flowering in a season. Nodes exposed in mature plants. Leaf sheaths 2 and more times longer than blades, uppermost closed for 1 / 6 of length and less; blade narrow linear, flat or folded, firm in edge, 1 – 2 mm wide, (2.5) 3.5 – 4.5 mm long, scabrid; ligule (1 –) 1.3 – 2 (3) mm long. Panicle contracted, narrow, 4 – 7 cm long, 1 – 2 cm wide; branches 1 – 2 (– 3) per node, angled, with dense short prickles on angles, ascending. The longest one (1.5) 2 – 3 (4) mm long, with (2) 3 – 4 (5) spikelets at the distal end. Spikelets lanceolate, (3) 3.5 – 4.5 (5) mm long, green, 2 – 3 florets; lowermost rachilla internode 0.5 (– 0.7) mm long, minutely bumpy, glabrous; both glumes 3 - veined, with short rare prickles at the upper part of the keels, apex acuminate, lower glume (2.7 –) 3 – 3.3 mm long, 0.4 – 0.6 mm wide, upper glume (3) 3.2 – 3.8 mm long, 0.4 – 0.7 mm wide, lemma oblong-lanceolate, (2.8 –) 3 – 3.5 (– 3.8) mm long 0.5 – 0.75 mm wide, keel slightly arched, shortly villous for half, marginal veins for 1 / 3 the length, intercostal area puberulent to short-villous in the lower part; callus webbed to almost glabrous; palea minutely pilulose between keels, keels with short prickles, outer margins smooth. Anthers (1.3) 1.5 – 1.8 mm long. Caryopsis 1.5 mm long, elliptical on side view, subtrigonous in the cross section, light-brown. Sulcus broad and shallow to indistinct, hilum elliptical, ca 0.1 mm long. Phenology: — Flowering from June to July (August).	en	Olonova, Marina V. (2025): Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia. Phytotaxa 715 (3): 295-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9
03FE879CAC1FFFBC60A4FC11B6C9FBDD.taxon	description	Geographical distribution: — Poa bashkirica was found in the southern Ural Mountains in western Russia (Fig. 2). Habitat and associated species: — The new species grows in the plain steppes and on the steppe mountain slopes in association with Stipa spp., Festuca pseudovina Hack. ex Wiesb. (1880: 126), Helictotrichon desertorum (Less.) Pilg. (1938: 7).	en	Olonova, Marina V. (2025): Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia. Phytotaxa 715 (3): 295-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9
03FE879CAC1FFFBC60A4FC11B6C9FBDD.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The new species was named Poa bashkirica in reference to the Republic of Bashkortostan (Bashkiria, Bashkortostan) where it was discovered. Paratypes: — RUSSIA. Orenburg Oblast: Orsk district, feather grass-steppe (St. pennata), S slope (20 o) near settlement Novo-Orskiy, along the road to settlement Novo-Sevastopolskiy, [51.73 oN, 58.59 oE], 06.06.1917, M. M. Ilyin s. n. (LE!); Orsk district, Irendyk ridge, [52.82 oN, 58.60 oE] cliffs at the top, upper reach of the Sibay river, 26.06.1917, M. M. Ilyin s. n. (LE!); Republic of Bashkortostan: [Baymaksky Distr.], Irendyk ridge, 6 km to NW from Stariy Sibay [52.76 oN, 58.54 oE], rocky steppe, 9.06.1961, N. P. Romakhina s. n. (LE!); Southern Ural, Bashkiria, [Beloretsky Distr.], E slope of Ural-tau, upper reaches of the Kazmash river, tributary of the Kyzyl river, [53.96 oN, 58.58 oE], SE slope of steppe hill, 26.06.1955, K. N. Igoshina s. n. (LE!).	en	Olonova, Marina V. (2025): Poa bashkirica (Poaceae): a new grass species from the southern Ural Mountains, Russia. Phytotaxa 715 (3): 295-300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.715.3.9
