台湾羊茅 tai wan yang mao

Culms robust, (40–)150–200 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous; auricles falcate; leaf blades flat, stiff, (15–)30–60 cm × 5–20 mm, margins scaberulous, finely acuminate; ligule 1.8–2.2 mm, truncate. Panicle large, effuse, 30–40 cm; branches ascending, paired, scabrid. Spikelets 8–10 mm; florets 1–2(–3), 3rd floret reduced; glumes glabrous; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 2.2–2.8(–3.2) mm; upper glume broadly lanceolate, 3.5–4.5 mm; lemmas 8–9 mm, puberulent, awnless; palea keels ciliolate. Anthers 2.6–3 mm.

* Limestone areas. Taiwan.

This species appears to be close to Festuca arundinacea. Specimens have not been seen.