糙花羊茅 cao hua yang mao

Plant loosely tufted. Culms 60–80 cm tall, nodes 3–4. Leaf sheaths glabrous; auricles lanceolate, straight; leaf blades flat, 10–15 cm × 4–6 mm, margins scabrid; ligule 0.4–0.6 mm. Panicle loose, 15–25 cm; branches 5–8(–15) cm, paired, lower 1/3 naked. Spikelets 16–18 mm; florets 4–5; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm, apex acute; upper glume narrowly lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm, apex acuminate; lemmas 6–7 mm, densely scabrid, apex notched; awns 6–8 mm; palea keels ciliolate. Anthers 1.3–1.7 mm. Ovary apex hairy. Fl. and fr. Jul–Aug.

* Alpine Quercus forests, streamsides, grassy mountainsides; 2700–3600 m. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.

This species is apparently close to Festuca gigantea, but specimens have not been seen.