Alloeochaete namuliensis Chippind.

Spikelets 6–7(12) mm long, oblong, straw-coloured, often tinged with purple; glumes ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, the inferior 3–5 mm long, the superior 3.5–6 mm long; lowermost floret male with rudimentary ovary, the lemma c. 5 mm long, 2-lobed with an awn in the sinus, the awn either short and straight or long and reflexed and rarely twisted below (these two sorts mixed in the same panicle); fertile lemmas 4–6 mm long including the aristate lobes, ovate-lanceolate; central awn 4.5–9 mm long.