小颖羊茅 xiao ying yang mao

Plant loosely tufted or turf-forming; shoots extravaginal. Culms (30–)40–80 cm tall, nodes 2–3. Leaf sheaths glabrous or basal leaf sheath hairy; auricles absent; leaf blades flat, 7–20(–36) cm × 2.5–3.8(–5) mm, veins 13–17; adaxial toabaxial sclerenchyma strands present; ligule 0.2–0.5 mm, margin ciliolate. Panicle loose, nodding, (10–)15–20 cm; branches 4–13 cm, 1(or 2) at lowest node. Spikelets 7–9 mm; florets 3 or 4(or 5); glumes smooth, apex obtuse to acute; lower glume ovate, 1–1.8 mm; upper glume ovate, 2.2–3(–4) mm; rachilla internodes 0.9–1.1 mm; lemmas 4.8–7 mm, smooth, apex subobtuse, rarely slightly notched; awns 5–10(–12) mm; palea keels smooth. Anthers 0.7–1.1(–1.5) mm. Ovary apex densely hairy. Fl. and fr. Apr–Jul.

Grassy slopes, forests, roadsides, river banks; (200–)1000–3700 m. Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].

Records of this species from NE India and Nepal are based on misidentifications.