Koeleria nitidula, Velen.

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11. K. nitidula Velen. , FI. Bulg. 611 (1891).

Laxly or densely caespitose, with short, creeping rhizomes. Stems 30-40(-65) cm, very slender. Leaves of non-flowering shoots 15-25 cm x c. 1 mm, plicate or flat, glabrous, soft, green or greyish-green; sheaths occasionally breaking down into ribbons when mature, slightly pubescent. Panicle 60-80 x 15-30 mm, narrowly lanceolate and dense when young, ovoid and lax when mature. Spikelets 4-4-5 mm, with long pedicels. Glumes unequal, acute, narrowly lanceolate, bright green and shining, glabrous. Lemma acute or aristate, narrowly lanceolate, hyaline. Rocky places and dry grassland. C. & E. parts of Balkan peninsula.?Au Bu?Hu Ju Tu.

Variants with a densely caespitose habit and short, glaucous, somewhat convolute leaves, with an appearance similar to 12, are sometimes distinguished as K. glaucovirens Domin , Magyar Bot. Lapok 3: 273 (1904).