光稃碱茅 guang fu jian mao

Perennial. Culms erect or base creeping, 15–20 cm tall, much branched. Leaf sheaths broad, loose, uppermost sheath enclosing panicle base; ligule 1–1.5 mm, obtuse; leaf blades flat or conduplicate, 2–5 cm, 1–2 mm wide. Panicle 5–8 × ca. 1 cm; branches 2–4 per node, scabrid, base naked. Spikelets 4–6 mm, florets 5–7; lower glume ca. 1 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse, upper glume ca. 1.5 mm, 3-veined; lemmas 2–2.3 mm, glabrous, apex obtuse; palea keels scabrid, anthers 0.6–0.8 mm. Fl. Jun–Jul.

* Wet ravines, saline places, alpine meadows; 3000–4500 m. Xizang, Qinghai, Sichuan.