''Stipa zalesskii'' is a grass found in

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. It is an important grass in

Eurasian steppe The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome. It stretches through Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Europea ...

. Its culms are 30–75 cm long and the leaf-blades 20–35 cm long by 0.6–1 mm wide.

Synonyms

* ''Stipa canescens'' P.A.Smirn. ex Roshev. * ''Stipa dobrogensis'' Prodán * ''Stipa glabrata'' P.A.Smirn. * ''Stipa iljinii'' Roshev. * ''Stipa krascheninnikowii'' Roshev. * ''Stipa maeotica'' Klokov & Osychnyuk * ''Stipa maeotica'' Klokov & Ossycznjuk * ''Stipa pennata'' subsp. ''zalesskii'' (Wilensky) Freitag * ''Stipa rubens'' P.A.Smirn. * ''Stipa rubentiformis'' P.A.Smirn. * ''Stipa smirnovii'' Martinovský * ''Stipa turcomanica'' P.A.Smirn. * ''Stipa ucrainica'' P.A.Smirn. * ''Stipa zalesskii'' subsp. ''canescens'' (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii'' var. ''glabrata'' (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii'' var. ''iljinii'' (Roshev.) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii'' var. ''maeotica'' (Klokov) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii'' var. ''rubens'' (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii'' subsp. ''turcomanica'' (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev * ''Stipa zalesskii''subsp. ''ucrainica'' (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev

References

* Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 21: 232. 1925. (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.) * Fl. Kavkaza 1:67. 1928 (D. G. Wilensky, Dnevn. Vserossijsk. S'ezda Russk. Bot. 1:41. 1921, nom. nud.)
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