Trisetum yunnanense Chrtek

The hairy ovary is unusual in Trisetum. The type has not been seen.

Perennial, tufted, shortly stoloniferous. Culms 26–35 cm tall, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous, 2–3-noded. Leaf sheaths scabrid, pubescent with longer hairs toward blade; leaf blades linear, gray-green, 4–10 cm, 2–3 mm wide, abaxial surface prominently veined, both surfaces scaberulous, often pilose, margins long ciliate, apex acuminate; ligule 1.5–3 mm, margin ciliate. Panicle lanceolate in outline, fairly dense, 7–9 cm, spikelets many; branches scabrid; pedicels 2–6 mm, scabrid. Spikelets 6.5–9 mm, florets 3, uppermost reduced, green or violet tinged; rachilla densely pilose; glumes unequal, keel scabrid, margins narrowly hyaline, apex acuminate-aristulate, lower glume lanceolate, 4–5 mm, 1-veined, upper glume elliptic, 5–6.5 mm, 3-veined; callus hairs ca. 0.8 mm; lowest lemma 6.5–7 mm, upper part often violet-colored, keel scabrid, apex 2-toothed; awn 12–16 mm, geniculate or rarely recurved; palea subequal to lemma. Anthers 1.8–2.2 mm. Ovary long-pilose in upper part.

Yunnan.

* Dry meadows; ca. 3000 m.

Trisetum yunnanense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Chrtek miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1990.