Koeleria hirsuta, Gaudin

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 218

3. K. hirsuta Gaudin , Alpina (Winterthur) 3: 48 (1808).

Densely caespitose. Stems 10-35 cm, slender, somewhat tuberous at the base, glabrous to densely hirsute above. Leaves of nonflowering shoots 3-15 cm x 0-5-2 mm, carinate-convolute, hard, acute, minutely pubescent; sheaths tightly imbricate, persistent and entire, somewhat dilated, densely and softly pubescent to more or less glabrous, sometimes slightly corrugated. Panicle 10 x 2-5 mm, compact, ovoid-spiciform. Glumes equal or subequal, shortly aristate, greenish-violet, with a silvery hyaline margin. Lemma acuminate, with a scabrid, subapical, dorsal awn up to 3 mm. 2/2=14 + 0-5B. Dry grassland, rocks and screes, 1700-3100 m. • S.& E. Alps. Au He It.