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Heteranthelium piliferum (Banks & Soland.) Hochst. in Kotschy, Pl. Aleppo. 130. 1843. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:672 1884; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:325. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 673. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:242. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:217. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 153. 1976.
Elymus pilifer Banks & Soland.
Culms densely tufted, rarely solitary, (6-)12-30 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades up to 12 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, scabrid, hairy. Spike 2.5-5 cm long (excluding the awns), dense, sometimes partially enclosed in the uppermost leaf-sheath. Fertile spikelet: glumes 2.5-5 mm long, hairy on the back, produced into an awn up to 11 mm long; lemma with yellow or brownish body 4-6(-8) mm long, papillose on the back, ± villous, produced at the tip into a green or purplish, flattened scabrid awn 20-25 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May.
Type locality: Syria.
Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan); throughout the Middle East and parts of southern USSR (Central Asia).
1600-2000 m.
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