Kengyilia zadoiensis S. L. Lu & Y. H. Wu, a new species of Gramineae from Zadoi County, Qinghai Province, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is related to K. kokonorica (Keng ex Keng & S. L. Chen) J. L. Yang, C. Yen & B. R. Baum. Kengyilia zadoiensis is distinguished by auricles on either side of the summit of leaf sheaths, glabrous glumes, muticous glumes that lack awns, lemmas that are 7–9 mm long, with an awn 4–10 mm, and anthers that are yellow-green, ca. 1 mm long.
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Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature
Vol. 19 • No. 2
June 2009
Vol. 19 • No. 2
June 2009
China
Gramineae
IUCN Red List
Kengyilia
Qinghai
Triticeae