Poa dahurica Trin.

USSR.
(Region of LAKE BAIKAL)
Poa dahurica Trin.
Desert steppe with loose coarse sandy to
gravelly bare "soil," rarely with open grass
cover (Stipa orientalis, Agropyron cristatum,
A. sp., Poa dahurica, Carex spp., Festuca,
Iris spp., Cymbaria dahurica, and many
Astragalus spp. and Oxytropis spp.).
b) Cliffs and outcrops of decomposing
granite, quartzite, or green feldspar, etc.
in steppe on slopes and bluffs NE of Aya
Bay, with Caragana pygmaea, Orostachys
spinosa, Arenaria meyeri, Selaginella spp.,
and many crustose lichens.
Treeless, heavily-grazed, coastal hills
and bluffs of the "Tazheranskaya Steppe,"
an arid zone along LAKE BAIKAL at Bukhta
Aya (AYA BAY), 158 km NE of mouth of Angara
River.
52°47'N, 106°37'E	Alt. 460-650m
Precip. ca. 170-200mm
H.	H. litis	30 June 1979
J. C. Coffey A
M. F. Denton No.
I.	M. Krasnoborov
4th field expedition conducted to the U.S.S.R. under the USA/USSR
Cooperative Agreement in the Protection of the Environment, Project
VI.I - Protection of Native Species of Flora. Sponsored by the Cary
Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden.
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