Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Krajina

Plant densely tufted; shoots intravaginal. Culms 20–75 cm tall, nodes 1–2. Leaf sheaths glabrous or hairy; auricles present as erect swellings; leaf blades involute, 8–30 cm × 0.4–0.6 mm, veins (5–)7; adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands absent, abaxial sclerenchyma usually forming an interrupted or almost continuous, unevenly thickened ring, occasionally in 3 strands; ligule 0.1–0.3 mm, margin ciliate. Panicle 3–13 cm, branches 1.2–3.5 cm, 1 at lowest node. Spikelets 5.5–10 mm; florets 4–8; glumes pubescent; lower glume 2–4 mm; upper glume 3–5.5 mm; lemmas 3.8–5.5 mm, scabrid or pubescent; awns 0.5–2.5 mm; palea keels scabrid. Anthers 2–3.4 mm. Ovary apex glabrous. 2n = 42.