Poa sinaica Steud.

11.Poa sinaicaSteud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 256. 1854. Figs 8 A – G, table 11 Fl. Iranica 70 / 30 (1970) ≡ Poa bulbosa subsp. sinaica (Steud.) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 95. 1973. ≡ Poa catharinae C. Presl., nom. nud., Abh. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. 3: 550. 1845.; nom. inval., as syn. of P. sinaica, in Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 256. 1854. ≡ Poa dahurica Hochst. & Steud. ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 606. 1884, nom. inval., as syn. of Poa sinaica Steud. Type protologue. Poa bulbosa Hrbr. Un. It. Arab. Nr. 326. Mons Sinai. Type specimen. Unio Itiner. 326. Poa bulbosa L., In cacumine montis St. Catharinae Arab., 19 May 1835, W. Schimper 326 (lectotype, here designated: P [P 02663422, Herbarium Steudel Poa sinaica] (rjs DSC-3427. jpg]; isolectotypes: B [rjs DSC _ 2970. jpg], BM [BM 000813078], G-BOIS [G 00330292 “ Poa dahurica Trin. ”], G-BOIS [G 00380175 “ Poa dahurica Trin. ”], G-BOIS [G 00785869 “ Poa dahurica Trin. ”], [G 00785865], [G 00382995], K [K 000789587], K [K 000789588], LE {n. v.}, MPU [MPU 027767, {“ n. sp ”}, image!], P [P 02643473, {“ n. sp. ”}], P [P 02663419], S [S 05-10295, image!], TUB [TUB 006567 {“ P. dahurica ” hb. Hochstetter}, image!]; TUB [TUB 009463, image!]). Description. See subspecies descriptions. Distribution and ecology. Afghanistan, Armenia, Egypt, India (NW), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya (doubtful), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, southern Transcaucasia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan (Kopetdağ). Semiarid habitats, desert slopes to high steppe grasslands; in Turkey, 100–2,700 m. Conservation status. None. Comments. Feinbrun (1940) provided the first detailed taxonomic account of infraspecific variation in Poa sinaica, naming a new subspecies and variety, and of the taxonomy of the Poa bulbosa complex in the Levant region, and later summarized this (Feinbrun 1986 a, 1986 b). Other taxonomists continued to recognize P. sinaica as a southern southwest Asian element not reaching Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, or Uzbekistan (Bor 1952 a, 1960, 1968, 1970; Cabi and Doğan 2012; Cope 1982; Cope and Grey 2009; Chrtek and Hadač 1970; Post 1933 (Dinsmore (Ed.)); Gabrieljan 2010; Grossheim 1939; Kellogg et al. 2020; Kavousi et al. 2015; Mouterde 1966; Rechinger 1960; Scholz 1986; Strid 2016 a, 2016 b; Tzvelev 1976; Valdés and Scholz 2009 +). It was also accepted in North Africa (Dobignard and Chatelain 2010), Libya (El-Gadi 1988 in Sherif and Siddiqi), Egypt (mostly confined to the Arabian Peninsula: Cope 2005; Ibrahim et al. 2016), and Greece (Dimopoulos et al. 2013; Strid 2016 a, 2016 b; northeastern Aegean Islands). For Turkey, Edmondson (1985) synonymized it under Poa bulbosa s. l. Although accepted for Qinghai and Xinjiang, China, by Liou (2003), Zhu et al. (2006) considered it absent from China.