Perennial, tussocky. Culms up to 3.5 m tall, 0.3–0.7 mm in diam., nodes bearded, silky villous below panicle. Leaf sheaths longer than internodes, smooth, margin and mouth hairy; leaf blades flat or involute, tough, 20–60 × 0.5–1.5 cm, glabrous, abaxial surface farinose, narrowed to base, apex acuminate; ligule 1–3 mm, ciliate. Panicle narrowly oblong in outline, very dense, 18–45 cm, cream or pinkish with long hairs obscuring the spikelets, unbranched or shortly branched at base, axis villous; racemes 2–4(–9) cm; rachis internodes 1.5–2.5 mm, villous. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm; callus hairs ca. 3 times spikelet length; lower glume lanceolate, thinly cartilaginous, dark brown at maturity, back subglabrous, margins shortly ciliate or occasionally with longer hairs, apex palely membranous, sharply acuminate; lower lemma slightly longer than glumes, apex attenuate, sometimes awnlike; upper lemma linear-lanceolate, entire, awned; awn 1–1.5 cm. Anthers (1–)3, 1–1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun–Oct. 2n = 20.
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A grass. It grows in clumps and keeps growing from year to year. The stalks are 3.5 m tall and 307 mm across. The leaf sheaths are longer than the internodes. The leaf blades can be flat or rolled and 20-60 cm long by 0.5-1.5 cm wide. The leaves have a dusty powder underneath. The flower panicle is narrowly oblong.
It is a subtropical plant. It grows on dry grassy and rocky hillsides between 1,300-2,600 m above sea level in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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