Trisetum alpestre, (Host) Beauv.

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 : 223

14. T. alpestre (Host) Beauv. , Agrost. 88, 180 (1812).

Like 13(a) but more densely caespitose and with 2 nodes usually concealed by sheaths; stem 15-35 cm, sometimes pubescent; leaves often convolute, 1-2 mm wide, the basal up to 8 cm, the upper up to 4 cm; panicle 3-6 cm, with up to c. 50 spikelets, rather lax and wide, usually brownish; lower glume usually c. £ as long as the upper; ovary with an apical tuft of short hairs. 2« =14. Mountain meadows and screes; calcicole. 9 Carpathians, E. & S. Alps. Au Cz Ge?He It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

Some plants from the S.W. Alps (Isère) resemble 14 but have more slender stems, shorter rhachilla-hairs and only a few hairs on the ovary. They approach 12 but have much more diffuse and brownish panicles. Their taxonomic status needs further study.