Aristida setifolia Kunth

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Aristida setifolia Kunth

• Description

  
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  Description - An erect or spreading, cespitose perennial, mostly 10 to 30 cm. tall, rather delicate, with short involute sharp-pointed blades, and loose narrow panicles 10 to 15 cm. long ; glumes somewhat unequal ; lemma about 6 mm. long, the equal awns 10 to 15 mm. long, spirally contorted at base.