Festuca pubiglumis S. L. Lu

This species was placed in Festuca subg. Subulatae by S. L. Lu, but it is not closely related to other species in this subgenus.

Plant loosely tufted, shortly rhizomatous, old basal sheaths stramineous; shoots extravaginal. Culms 40–50 cm tall; nodes 1–2. Leaf sheaths glabrous; auricles present as erect swellings or absent; leaf blades flat or involute, gray-green 10–25 cm × 3–4 mm, margins smooth or scabrid, veins 13–15; adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands absent, abaxial sclerenchyma in narrow discrete strands; ligule 0.4–0.7 mm, margin ciliate. Panicle loose, open, 11–15 cm, base included in uppermost leaf sheath, uppermost blade exceeding panicle; branches (2–)4–8 cm, 2 at lowest node, lower 1/2 naked. Spikelets 10–13 mm; florets 4–6(–8), closely overlapping; glumes pubescent, apex acuminate; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm; upper glume lanceolate, 6–7 mm; rachilla internodes 1.2–1.5 mm, scabrid; lemmas 7–8 mm, densely pubescent; awns (2–)4–7mm; palea keels scabrid. Anthers 3.5–4 mm. Ovary apex glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jun–Jul.

Yunnan (Eryuan).

* Alpine meadows; 3600–3800 m.