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Aristida scabrescens L. Liou
糙三芒草
Description from Flora of China
Perennial. Culms densely tufted, erect, 15–60 cm tall, unbranched. Leaf sheaths usually shorter than internodes, sparsely silky hairy along margins, sheath-collar ciliate, villous at mouth; leaf blades gray-green, involute, 5–20 cm, abaxial surface smooth, adaxial surface densely pilose with short hairs. Panicle narrowly contracted or lax, 4–16 cm; branches 1–7 cm, capillary, paired, appressed to axis or loosely ascending. Spikelets yellowish green to purplish green; glumes subequal with upper slightly longer, lanceolate, scabrid, apiculate, lower glume 10–12 mm, upper glume 12–14 mm; callus obtuse; lemma 8–9 mm, punctately scabrid, also with some long soft hairs; awn with 2–3 mm twisted column, central branch ca. 1.5 cm, laterals ca. 1.2 cm. Anthers 4–4.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.
* Grassy places on mountain slopes, river banks; 3100–4100 m. Xizang.
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