Stipa baicalensis Roshev. Stipa capillata L. POACEAE Bo Liu and Rainer W. Bussmann Synonyms Stipa baicalensis Roshev.: Stipa attenuata P.A. Smirn. Stipa capillata L.: Aristidia avenacea Guett. ex Houtt.; Stipa capillaris Gromov ex Trautv.; Stipa erecta Trin.; Stipa juncea Lam.; Stipa lagascae Guss.; Stipa thessala Hausskn.; Stipa ucranica Lam.; Stipa ukranensis Lam. Local Names Chinese: 狼针草 (lang zhen cao) Botany and Ecology Stipa baicalensis: Perennial. Tufts rather dense; culms 50–70 cm tall, more rarely 15–20 cm (var. desetorum Roshev.) or 80–100 cm (f. robusta Roshev.), glabrous, smooth; leaf sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous, smooth, the uppermost partly enveloping the inflorescence; leaves 15–30 cm long, setaceous-involute, B. Liu University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Minzu University of China, Beijing, China e-mail: boliu@muc.edu.cn R. W. Bussmann (*) Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: rainer.bussmann@iliauni.edu.ge; rbussmann@gmail.com © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 K. Batsatsashvili et al. (eds.), Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai, Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77087-1_134-1 1