Botanical name: Piptatherum aequiglume    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Oryzopsis aequiglumis, Oryzopsis duthiei, Piptatherum sinense

Equal-Glume Smilograss is a loosely clustered perennial grass, with stems 85-130 cm high, stout. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, scaberulous on the upper surface, rough beneath. Panicle lax, 15-30 cm long, the branches spreading or rising up, the longest about half the length of the panicle. Spikelets lanceshaped, 6.5-9 mm long; lemma lanceshaped, 5-6.5 mm long, pointed at the tip, covered (except at the tip) with dense hairs about 0.3 mm long; awn 8-11 mm long, long-protruding from the glumes, at branch-ends, deciduous or subpersistent; anthers 3.5-4 mm long, their tips bearded. Equal-Glume Smilograss is found in Turkmenistan to Himalaya and China, in juniper tracts and coniferous forests, at altitudes of 1300-3300 m. Flowering: July-August.

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