哈达羊茅 ha da yang mao

Festuca modesta Steudel subsp. handelii St.-Yves in Handel-Mazzetti, Symb. Sin. 7: 1289. 1936.

Plant loosely tufted or single-stemmed; shoots extravaginal. Culms 60–85 cm tall, nodes 2–3. Leaf sheaths with trichomes; auricles absent; leaf blades flat or loosely convolute, 3–4(–6) mm wide; adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands present; ligule 2.5–3.5 mm. Panicle loose, open, 15–20 cm. Spikelets 9–10 mm, florets 3–4; glumes with trichomes; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm; upper glume broadly lanceolate, 4–4.5 mm; rachilla internodes 1–1.5 mm; lemmas 6.4–8 mm, smooth, veins 3; awns absent; palea keels scabrid. Anthers 2.8–3.2 mm. Ovary apex sparsely to moderately hairy. Fl. and fr. Jul.

* 3600–3700 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.