喜马拉雅嵩草(原亚种) xi ma la ya song cao (yuan ya zhong)

Trilepis royleana Nees, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 267. 1834; Elyna kokanica Regel; E. stenocarpa Karelin & Kirilov; Kobresia paniculata Meinshausen; K. royleana var. kokanica (Regel) Kükenthal; K. royleana var. paniculata (Meinshausen) Kükenthal; K. stenocarpa (Karelin & Kirilov) Steudel; K. stenocarpa var. royleana (Nees) C. B. Clarke; K. stenocarpa var. simplex Y. C. Yang.

Culms rigid, acutely trigonous, or subterete in lower part, 5-35 cm tall, 1.5-2.5 mm in diam. Leaves basal, blade flat, 2-4 mm wide. Inflorescence a dense panicle, lower branches sometimes slightly distant, 1-3.5 × 0.6-1.2 cm. Terminal spikelets of inflorescence branches male, lateral ones bisexual or unisexual. Lower spikelets of branches usually bisexual with 1 basal female flower and 2 or 3(-6) distal male flowers. Glumes ovate-oblong, 2.6-4.5 × 3.2-3.5 mm. Prophylls 3-5 mm. Nutlets 2.4-4 mm, beak to 1 mm.

Moist habitats; 700-5200 m. Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan [Afghanistan, India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand), Kashmir, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan].

Records of Kobresia caricina Willdenow (FRPS 12: 22-23. 2000) and K. persica Kükenthal & Bornmüller (loc. cit.: 35-36) are based on misidentifications of K. royleana subsp. royleana.