Three species, Aristida fredscholzii from Oman, Stipagrostis affinis from SE Egypt and NW Sudan and S. fallax from the Nanga Parbat region, N Pakistan, are described as new to science. The first record of Stipagrostis libyca from Sudan refers to a new subspecies, S. libyca subsp. darfurensis.
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