Eulalia mollis - Soft Eulalia Grass

Soft Eulalia Grass is a perennial, loosely clustered grass, with slender spreading rhizomes. Stems rising up or decumbent, 0.25-0.5 m tall, 1-2 mm in diameter, hairy below inflorescence, nodes hairless. Leaf sheaths are hairless with fringed with hairs margin or hairy, bearded at mouth. Leaf blades are linear, 3-8 x 0.2-0.5 cm, hairless or bristly with tubercle-based hairs, margins thickened, smooth, tip tapering; ligule a fringed with hairs rim. Flower racemes are 3-7, digitate, 4-7 cm, hairs silvery white or pinkish; axis internodes and flower-stalks 2/3 spikelet length, densely hairy with long silky hairs exceeding and obscuring spikelets. Spikelets are 4-5 mm, dark brown, pallid near tip, keels green; callus hairs 1/2 spikelet length; lower glume lanceshaped, back flat, densely hairy with silky hairs about 1.5 times spikelet length or more, veinless between keels, tip obscurely notched or 2-with a short sharp point; upper lemma narrowly oblong, shortly 2-toothed; awn 0.8-1.5 cm, fine, almost straight. Anthers about 2 mm. Soft Eulalia Grass is found in dry grassy mountainsides, from Himalaya, Nepal to China, at altitudes of 2000-3500 m.