Botanical name: Andropogon munroi    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Cymbopogon munroi, Cymbopogon tibeticus, Sorghum triste

Himalayan Bluestem Grass is a clustered perennial grass with stems 30-150 cm high. Leaf-blades up to 30 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, hairless or velvet-hairy. Inflorescence composed of 2-4 racemes, at branch-ends or with 1-2 in leaf-axils branches; racemes 2.5-7.5 cm long, green, stalkless or supported by a short raceme-base 4-8 mm long; internodes linear, widening above to a cupuliform tip with scarious finely toothed rim. Stalkless spikelet narrowly elliptic-oblong, 4.5-6.5 mm long; lower glume concave on the back, the keels dorsal, wingless, intercarinal nerves or 1 vanishing below the middle; upper glume wingless on the keel; upper lemma hyaline, bibbed to about the middle, with an awn 8-15 mm long. Stalked spikelet narrowly elliptic-oblong, 4.5-6.5 mm long. Himalayan Bluestem Grass is found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Nepal, NE India and southern Tibet, at altitudes of 2100-4000 m.

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