Festuca yulungschanica E.B.Alexeev

Plant densely tufted; shoots intravaginal. Culms 18–26 cm tall. Leaf sheaths smooth, closed below middle when young; auricles present as erect swellings or absent; leaf blades conduplicate, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, veins 5; adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands absent, abaxial sclerenchyma in narrow discrete strands. Panicle contracted, narrow, 4.5–6 cm. Spikelets ovate, 8–10 mm, greenish; lemmas 5–5.5 mm, smooth; awns (1.5–) 2.5–5.5 mm; palea keels scabrid. Anthers 2.3–2.8 mm. Ovary apex glabrous.