Elymus nutans Griseb

Gramineous grass is a perennial fasciculate herb. Culms erect to 70 cm in height. Leaf blade flat, sparsely pilose above sometimes, coarse or smooth below, spikes compact, usually tortuous and pendulous at apex, spikelet green, purple when mature, with floret; Lemma oblong, lemma lanceolate, awn coarse, recurving or slightly spreading, palea as long as lemma, ridge ciliated, interridge with few minute hairs.

Herbaceous perennial. Culms erect, base slightly geniculate, 50-70 cm high. Leaf sheaths pubescent at base and root; Leaf blade flat, sometimes sparsely pilose above, coarse or smooth below, 6-8 cm long, 3-5 mm wide.

Spikes compact, usually sinuous and pendulous, 5-12 cm long, cobs margin coarse or with cilia, base 1 and 2 nodes without developing spikelet; Spikelet green, purple when mature, usually 2 per cob and only 1 near apex and lower cob, more or less on 1 side of cob, nearly slitless or with very short stalks, 12-15 mm long, with 3-4 florets; Glume oblong, 4-5 mm long, 2 glume almost equal, apex acuminate or with short awns 1-4 mm long, 3-4 veins, veins conspicuous and coarse; Lemma lanceolate, 5-veined, veins indistinct at base, all covered with minute short hairs, first lemma ca. 10 mm, apically extended into awns, coarse, recurved or slightly spread, 12 -- 20 mm; Palea as long as lemma, apex obtuse or truncate, ridge with cilia, hairs indistinctly toward base, interridge covered with sparse minute hairs.