Luzula effusa Buchenau

Stoloniferous erect or ascending perennial, 25-70 cm high. Lower leaves crowded at the base of the stem; the higher ones more remote and gradually diminishing in size; all leaves linear from a sheathing base, flat, with a much tapering apex, terminated by a very short, shortly triangular not thickened point, along the smooth margins and often also on the surfaces with a few scattered long very fine white hairs, the larger leaves 6-12 cm by 6-12 mm. Flowers in an elongate very lax panicle, the lower branches of which arise from the higher leaf-axils; branches often nodding or drooping; flowers for the greater part solitary on pedicels 4-12 mm long, for the rest shortly pedicelled or subsessile. Perianth 2-2½ mm long. Tepals narrowly ovate-lanceolate, very acute. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the perianth; filaments very thin, ± 1 ¼ mm long; anthers oblong, ½-¾ mm. Capsule about as long as the perianth, broadly ellipsoid-obovoid, trigonous, crowned by the style-base. Seeds usually 3, erect, oblong or oblong-ob-ovoid, brown, faintly reticulate-ribbed, on the rounded top with a minute pale elaiosome, 1 ¼-l ½ mm long.

In burnt forest-fringes, scattered through forests, on steep rock walls, in upper border of mossy forests, 2100-3300 m.