Festuca leptopogon Stapf

Plant loosely tufted, shortly rhizomatous; shoots extravaginal. Culms (30–)60–120 cm tall, nodes 3–5. Leaf sheaths glabrous, old basal sheaths reddish brown, becoming fibrous; auricles absent; leaf blades flat, soft, 8–15(–30) cm × 3–8 mm, glabrous, margins smooth or scabrid, veins 12–22; adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands present; ligule (0.5–)1–2 mm, truncate. Panicle loose, nodding, (10–)15–30 cm; branches flexuously ascending, 6–15 cm, 1(–2) at lower nodes. Spikelets 7–8 mm; florets 2–3; glumes smooth; lower glume lanceolate, 1.5–3.2 mm; upper glume broadly lanceolate, 2.5–4(–5.5) mm; rachilla internodes 1–1.5 mm, scabrid; lemmas 6.5–7.5(–8) mm, smooth, apex distinctly notched; awns 6–10(–15) mm; palea keels smooth or occasionally scaberulous. Anthers 1–1.2(–1.6) mm. Ovary apex moderately or densely hairy. Fl. and fr. May–Jul.

Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), Assam (Khasia), China, Taiwan, Malaysia.

Guizhou, Qinghai, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Malaysia, Nepal].

1800-3600 m

Forests on mountain slopes, grasslands, streamsides; 2300–3900 m.

Festuca subulata Trinius var. leptopogon (Stapf) St.-Yves; F. takasagoensis Ohwi.