Eragrostis pilosiuscula Ohwi

Culm tufted. Blade linear, about 10 cm long by 1.5 mm wide, densely covered with long hairs; ligule a ring of hairs. 0.4-0.5 mm long. Inflorescence an open panicle, about 5-7 cm long. Spikelets usually 7-flowered, about 3.5 mm long; glumes chartaceous, nearly equal, about 1 mm long, 1-nerved; the lower slightly shorter than the upper, lanceolate; the upper ovate; lemma chartaceous, ovate, 3-nerved, about 1.5 mm long; palea as long as the lemma, elliptical, 2-keeled minutely scabrous along keels.

Perennial. Culms tufted. Leaf sheaths tuberculate-pilose; ligules a line of hairs, 0.4–0.5 mm; leaf blades linear, ca. 10 × 0.15 cm, densely covered with long tuberculate hairs on both surfaces. Panicles open, 5–7 cm; branches solitary or in pairs, naked at base. Spikelets usually 7-flowered, ca. 3.5 mm. Glumes lanceolate, or upper ovate, chartaceous, subequal, ca. 1 mm, 1-veined. Lemmas ca. 1.5 mm, chartaceous, ovate. Palea elliptical, usually equal to lemma, 2-keeled, minutely scabrous along keels. Caryopsis compressed, elliptical in section. Fl. and fr. Aug.

Endemic to Taiwan.

* Open places. Guangdong, Taiwan.