Stipa ucrainica

Stipa ucrainica is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native from North Macedonia to Kazakhstan and the Caucasus. It was first described in 1926.

Taxonomy

Original Description

The following account is translated from the original Latin protologue by Paul Smirnov :

Type specimens

The species Stipa ucrainica was described by P.A. Smirnov, based on material collected by B. Alehin in Ukraine. The protologue cites the type locality as Ekaterinoslav province, Alexandrovsk district, near Mirgorodovka, on the southern steppe slope of the valley “Prunosae.”

Holotype: Moscow State University Herbarium, accession MW0591232.
Isotypes: MW0591233–MW0591236.
Collector: B. Alehin.
Repository: MW.

A later name, Stipa krascheninnikowii Roshev., is considered a heterotypic synonym of S. ucrainica. Its type specimen is deposited at the Harvard University Herbaria, barcode GH00024487, collected in Kazakhstan by M.M. Ilyin & M.N. Abramchik.