Helictotrichon milanjianum (Rendle) C.E.Hubb.

Perennial from a slender rhizome.. Culms 50–120 cm. high, erect or ascending, slender or somewhat stout, the basal sheaths usually golden brown.. Leaf-blades rather broad, 8–30 cm. long and 4–7 mm. wide, flat, glabrous; ligule 2–4 mm. long.. Panicle linear, 12–25 cm. long, flexuous, rather loose, the branches ascending close to the rhachis.. Spikelets 3–4-flowered, narrowly oblong, 13–15 mm. long, loose, the florets well exserted; rhachilla-internodes 3 mm. long, pilose above; glumes herbaceous with hyaline margins; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 3–6 mm. long, 1-nerved; upper glume oblong-lanceolate, 4–8 mm. long, 3-nerved; lemmas herbaceous, the lower 8–12 mm. long, smooth, 7-nerved, bilobed with the lobes passing into a short fine bristle; awn from near the apex, 12–20 mm. long, not or only slightly geniculate, flexuous, the column scarcely twisted.