Japan Flora: Peren­nial with very short rhizomes; stolons absent; culms some­what tufted, 15-20(-40) cm. long, slender, witli long, spread­ing, white hairs except in upper part; leaf-blades flat, thin, 1-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, pilose or glabrous; sheaths pubescent; ligules 1-2 mm. long; panicles 5-7(-10) cm. long, rather dense, glabrous, 8-15 mm. wide, the branches 3- to 5- nate, short, smooth; spikelets 2-flowered, 4.5-55 mm. long, pale yellowish green, sometimes variegated with purple; glumes 3-3.5 mm. long, 3-nerved; lemmas about 4 mm. long, nearly smooth, membranous, acuminate and minutely biden- tate, the awn slightly twkted, about 5 mm. long; callus ap- pressed-puberulent.                     July-Aug. Alpine meadows.

Honshu (centr. distr.); very rare.