General:
Perennial, densely tufted grass from fibrous roots; stems 5-15 (20) cm tall.
Leaves:
Sheath margins open 3/4-9/10 their length; sterile shoots emerging inside sheaths; basal bladeless leaves absent; blades 0.8-1.5 (2) mm wide, in-rolled, moderately thick; ligules 0.8-5.5 mm long, the tips rounded to sharp-pointed, the backs smooth or rough.
Flowers:
Inflorescence an erect panicle, 1.5-5 cm long, lanceolate to egg-shaped, congested, the branches 1 to 3 per node, appressed, slender, to 1.5 cm long, smooth to slightly rough on angles; spikelets laterally compressed, 4-6.5 mm long, 2- to 5-flowered, frequently strongly purplish, longer than stalks; glumes lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, smooth, nearly equalling to slightly longer than adjacent lemmas, the lower 1-nerved; rachilla internodes usually less than 1 mm long, smooth to rough; lemmas broadly lanceolate, 3-4.6 mm long, the tips sharp-pointed, keels (to 3/4 the length) and marginal nerves soft-hairy, hairless or minutely soft-hairy between the nerves; calluses hairless or cobwebby; palea keels rough, medially often minutely soft to short silky-hairy; flowers bisexual (sometimes with bulbils); anthers 0.6-1.2 (1.8) mm long.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1442 | 1219 | 1680 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
48 | 15 | 140 |
Aspect (degrees) |
7 | 68 | 330 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 0 | 6 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
4 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BAFA | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(2), ICH(1), SWB(1) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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