Chrysopogon orientalis (Desv.) A. Camus

Perennial, tufted, shortly rhizomatous. Culms 30–90 cm tall, glabrous or puberulous below inflorescence. Leaf sheaths glabrous or puberulous; leaf blades linear, 3–10 × 0.2–0.4 cm, lower margins tuberculate-setose, otherwise glabrous, apex subacute; ligule 0.2–0.7 mm. Panicle open, 6–20 cm, purplish brown; branches laxly spreading, 3.5–6 cm, tipped by a single triad. Sessile spikelet 4.7–5.5 mm; callus pungent, 2–4 mm, bearded with golden hairs, obliquely attached to branch apex; glumes leathery; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, smooth, glabrous, pilosulous near apex, apex obtuse; upper glume setulose on upper keel, awned, awn 1.2–1.8 cm; upper lemma entire, awned; awn geniculate, 4–6 cm, column puberulous. Pedicelled spikelet male or barren, 5.3–7 mm; lower glume with 5–15 mm awn. Pedicel 3/4 length of sessile spikelet, ciliate with golden hairs. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.

Hill slopes, coastal sand at low elevations. Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan [India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam].

Rhaphis orientalis Desvaux, Opusc. Sci. Phys. Nat. 69. 1831; Andropogon wightianus Nees ex Steudel; Chrysopogon sinensis Rendle.

Chrysopogon orientalis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Desv.) A.Camus mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1922.

金鬚茅屬（学名：Chrysopogon orientalis）为菊科金鬚茅屬下的一个种。