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Stipa capillata Linn., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1:116. 1762. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:500. 1884; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:230. 1896; Rozhev. & Shishkin in Kom., Fl. URSS 2:109. 1934; Ovchinnikov, Fl. Tadzh, 1:430. 1957; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:357. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 644. 1960; Tzvelev, Pl. As. Cent., Gram. 51. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:398. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 580. 1976; Martinovsky in Tutin et al., Fl. Fur. 5:251. 1980.
Tufted perennial (20-)55-110 cm high. Leaf-blades involute and setaceous, 1-2 mm wide when flattened, glabrous to faintly scaberulous on the lower (outer) surface; ligule 3.5-17 mm long. Panicle narrow, contracted but not dense, 10-25 (-40) cm long, partially enclosed in the inflated sheath of the uppermost leaf. Glumes subequal, lanceolate and long-acuminate, 25-35 mm long, the lower 3-nerved, the upper 5-nerved; lemma ± terete, 10-14 mm long (including callus), hairy with the hairs in several straight lines, glabrous at the tip; callus acuminate, pungent, 2.5-4 mm long. Awn bigeniculate, articulated at the base, 12-18 cm long, scabrid throughout.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-September.
Type locality: Europe.
Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F.P., Gilgit & Kashmir); Mediterranean region eastwards through southern USSR and the Himalayas to China and Japan.
Also collected (unlocalised) in Chitral. 3000-4000m.
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