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Ujhelyi, J.: Data to the systematics of the sections Bulbosae and Caespitosae of the genus Koeleria, XI.
Holotypus adest in Herbario Musei et Universitatis, Zurich. Holotypus: Schweizerische Gräsersammlung. Herausgegeben von der eidg. Samencontrolstation — Graminées suisses. Publiées par la station fédérale d'essais des semences, unter Leitung von Dr. F. G. STEBLER und Prof. C. SCHRÖTER. Koeleria hirsuta (LAM. et DC.) GAUD. 4. Haarige Koelerie. Koelérie hérissée. Grasgehänge beim Berninahospiz. Pentes à gazon près l'hospice de Bernina. Gneis. 2450 m.s.m. 6. August. 1889. Nr. 109. :Schedula Domini: K. hirsuta GAUD. var. Schinzii m. Rev. Dr. K. DOMIN. (Z.). Exemplaria altera: Flora der Schweiz. Koeleria hirsuta GAUD. var. Schinzii DOMIN Oberengadin: Chaste. 21.7.11. leg. A. R. PAUL. Schedula TJJHELYII: Koeleria schinzii. (DOM.) ÚJHELYI. Rev. ÚJHELYI (Hb. BOROS). In its whole habit, the plant differs from Koeleria hirsuta (LAM. & DC.) GAUD. The large, many-flowered spikelets, the considerably bigger and decidedly ample panicle, the greater dimensions of the glumae, lemmae, and paleae, as well as the robust state of the plant allude to a distinct taxon. Its rank can be decided only by investigation of a live material, without which the decision is only theoretical. The problem of Koeleria splendens Presl 3. var. pyramidata (DOM.) DOM. S subvar. Geilingeri DOMIN When establishing the Series Ciliatae UJH., I have stressed the most important features of this evolutional series restricted to the Alps (ÚJHELYI 1970). The diploid (Koeleria montana (Hausm.)) D.T. as weh as the other members of the series are characterized by the expressed extra vaginal innovation and the resultant cespitosity, the glabrous vaginae, the elongated, glabrous, glaucescent, or obscure blades, the narrow and interiorly interrupted panicle, and the glabrous and splendent spikelets. The basis of my detailed Latin description was a plant collected by G. GEILINGER on the Grigna Group, an exemplar identified by K. DOMIN as K. montana (HAUSM.) D.T. (Herbarium GEILINGERI). The three specimens, originating also from the Grigna Group and preserved in the Geilinger Herbarium of the Botanical Museum of the University of Zürich, served for DOMIN'S description of his Koeleria splendens PRESL var. pyramidata (DOM.) DOM. subvar. Geilingeri DOM. It should be borne in mind that of the herbarial data listed for Koeleria splendens PRESL var. pyramidata DOM. in his monograph only a single specimen represents Koeleria splendens PRESL and all others are referable to divers species. He drew subvar. Geilingeri DOM. under the variety mentioned probably because of its strongly elongated and lobate panicle. He regarded the wholly glabrous and therefore splendent spikelets and the incrassate rhizome as Koeleria splendens PRESL features, but failed to consider its conditions of distribution. I have already stressed in my introduction that an unilateral assessment of the finer hfe-form characteristics confuses the evolutionary view. The basis of his Latin diagnosis and concurrently the source of DOMIN'S erroneous evaluation is his holotype: "Rhizomatibus minus incrassatis sed senio sublignoso-fatiscentibus, culmis gracilioribus usque 6 dm altis, foliis longioribus glaucis subrigidis planis c. 1—2 mm la-,is pro more laminis plus evolutis instructis, paniculis quidem lobati sed semper angustis (lobis brevibus) laxioribus subinterruptis albescentinitididis, spiculis 5 1/2 usque 6 mm longis 3- vel 2f loris". Its rhizomes are thick, sublignose, fatiscent (a result of subterranean decay : the interwoven fungal hyphae are still present on the fatiscent vetust vaginae, the cause of their white fatiscence). It escaped DOMIN'S attention, and because of the overstressing of the above features
