Botanical name: Anthoxanthum hookeri    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Anthoxanthum elongatum, Anthoxanthum latifolium, Ataxia hookeri

Elongated Sweet-Grass is a loosely clustered grass, with stems 20-50 cm tall, 3-4-noded. Leaf sheaths are hairless or finely velvet-hairy; leaf blades linear or broadly linear, 5-25 cm, 3-8 mm wide, velvet-hairy or lower surface hairless, tip tapering; ligule 1.5-5 mm, flat-lacerate. Flowers are borne in panicles which are rather loose or contracted, lanceshaped or lanceshaped-oblong in outline, 6-10 cm. Spikelets are lanceshaped-oblong, 5.5-8 mm, green when young, maturing purplish brown; glumes unequal, lanceshaped. Elongated Sweet-Grass is is found on open grassy mountainsides, dry rocky ridges, forests, at altitudes of 2100-4000 m, from Himalaya to China. Flowering: May-December.

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