Anthoxanthum sikkimense (Maxim.) Ohwi

Plant probably shortly rhizomatous. Culms solitary or few, very slender, 30–45 cm, 2–3-noded. Leaf blades narrowly linear, often involute when dry, 5–17 cm, ca. 0.3 mm wide; ligule 2–4 mm, truncate-erose. Panicle contracted, linear-oblong in outline, 3.8–5 cm; branches very short, with few spikelets. Spikelets oblong-ovate, 3–5 mm, yellow or purplish; glumes unequal, lower glume ovate, ca. 3 mm, upper glume oblong-ovate, as long as spikelet; lower florets sterile, composed only of lemmas, pilose on back, apex 2-lobed, lobes truncate-ciliolate; first lemma 3–3.8 mm, lobed in upper 1/3, awned from sinus, awn straight, 1.7–1.8 mm; second lemma 3.9–4 mm, awned from lower 1/4, awn geniculate, 6–6.7 mm; fertile floret ca. 2.3 mm, smooth, shiny; palea 1-veined.

E. Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim).

Yunnan (Kunming, Chengjiang) [India (Sikkim), Nepal].

3800 m

Grassy mountainsides, among bushes; 2000–2500 m.

Hierochloë sikkimensis Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-PΘtersbourg 32: 626. 1888; Anthoxanthum gracilli-mum (J. D. Hooker) Mez; Hierochloë gracillima J. D. Hooker.

Anthoxanthum sikkimense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Maxim.) Ohwi mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1947.