Arundinella hookeri Munro ex Keng

This slender species is recognized by its tufts of hairy leaves; compact panicle with short, broad branches of densely packed, large spikelets; setose, caudate glumes; and clearly visible, geniculate awns.

Perennial, tufted with a short knotty rhizome, base clothed with old papery sheaths. Culms erect or ascending, herbaceous, (18–)30–60(–90) cm tall, 1–3 mm in diam., internodes glabrous, 1–2-noded, nodes purple, glabrous or puberulent. Leaf sheaths shorter than internodes, densely hirsute; leaf blades mainly basal, linear-lanceolate, 2–20 cm × 2–12 mm, densely villous, apex acute; ligule 0.2–0.5 mm. Panicle contracted, oblong or narrowly pyramidal in outline, 3–12 cm; central axis densely pubescent; branches 1–2(–3) cm, suberect or ascending, inserted singly, spaced below, crowded above, densely spiculate; pedicels short, densely pubescent. Spikelets 5–7 mm, gray-green tinged purplish; glumes 5-veined, setose on veins, apex caudate; lower glume 3.5–5 mm; upper glume 4.5–6 mm; lower floret staminate, ± equaling lower glume; upper floret 2.5–3.5 mm, lemma apex emarginate, awned; awn geniculate with brown twisted column, 2–5 mm; callus hairs 2/5 length of lemma. Fl. and fr. Oct–Nov.

Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), Assam, Burma.

W Guizhou, SW and W Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, N Myanmar, Nepal].

2400-3500 m

Common on mountainsides, open forests, meadows; 1800–3200 m.

Arundinella chenii Keng; A. villosa Arnott ex Steudel var. himalaica J. D. Hooker.

Arundinella hookeri là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Munro ex Keng mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1936.

西南野古草（学名：Arundinella hookeri）为禾本科野古草属的植物。分布于尼泊尔、印度东北部及缅甸北部山区、锡金、不丹以及中国大陆的四川、贵州西部、西藏、云南等地，生长于海拔700米至3,000米的地区，见于山坡草地以及疏林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。