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|accepted_name=Miscanthus nepalensis
|accepted_authority=(Trin.) Hack.
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|common_names=Himalaya fairygrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Miscanthus;Miscanthus nepalensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Miscanthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Miscanthus nepalensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 617
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 40-80(150) cm. <b>Sheaths</b> more or less keeled, with scattered hairs, particularly below the collar; ligules 2-3.5 mm, obtuse, lacerate and shortly pubescent; blades 20-60 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, stiff, flat or folded, abaxial surfaces with scattered fine hairs, adaxial surfaces glabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-20 cm, flabellate, golden brown, with more than 15 branches; rachises about 1/2 as long as the panicles; branches 3.5-10.5 cm, ascending. <b>Shorter</b> pedicels 1.5-2 mm; longer pedicels 2.5-3.5 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-2.8 mm; callus hairs 3-4 times longer than the spikelets, golden brown. <b>Lower</b> glumes hairy on the lower margins, hairs to 3 times longer than the glumes; awns of upper lemmas 9-13 mm, exceeding the glumes, flexuous to weakly geniculate. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Miscanthus nepalensis</i> is native from Pakistan through the Himalayas to Myanmar. It is cultivated occasionally in the Flora region. Edgar and Conner (2000) report that, in New Zealand, <i>M. nepalensis</i> has escaped cultivation and is spreading.</p>
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|authority=(Trin.) Hack.
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|family=Poaceae
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Miscanthus
|species=Miscanthus nepalensis
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