Botanical name: Spodiopogon dubius    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)

Himalayan Beard Grass is a perennial grass with spreading scaly rhizomes. Stems are solitary or clustered, erect, 1-2 m tall, 4-5 mm in diameter, branched or unbranched. Leaf sheaths are hairless to hairy, woolly at tip; leaf blades broadly linear, 20-30 x 1.2-1.5 cm, thinly appressed-hairy to densely hairy, base rounded, tip long tapering; ligule about 0.3 mm, margin densely fringed with hairs. Flowers are borne in dense panicles, narrowly oblong in outline, 10-22 cm; branches 2-5 cm, branchlets many, short, hairy in axils; racemes 2-4-noded with 7-11 spikelets, disjointed at maturity, one spikelet of a pair stalkless, the other stalked; internodes and flower-stalks 2-2.5 mm, slender with expanded tips, densely fringed with hairs. Spikelets are 4-5 mm; callus hairs 1.5-2 mm. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. Himalayan Beard Grass is is found in mountain slopes, forest margins, in West & Central Himalaya to Tibet, at altitudes of about 2400 m.

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