Leptochloa monticola Chase

Leptochloa monticola Chase, Jour. Wash. Acad. 17: 73. 1927
Perennial; culms densely tufted, erect, 50 cm. to more than a meter tall; sheaths rounded on the back, glabrous, the lower ones crowded, the upper elongate but shorter than the internodes; ligule membranaceous, minutely erose, less than 0.5 mm. long; blades firm, twisted at the base, involute or sometimes flat, 20-30 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, glabrous on the lower surface, scabrous and sparsely pilose on the upper; inflorescence 20-40 cm. long, the numerous ascending spikes subverticillate, the lower ones 7-10 cm. long; spikelets scarcely crowded, 6-flowered or 7-flowered, S-10 mm. long; glumes acuminate, the first 2 mm. long, the second broader, 3 mm. long; lemmas 4-5 mm. long, densely pilose on the margins at the base and on the lower part of the midnerve.
Type locality: Furcy, Haiti (Leonard 4751).
Distribution: Pineland, on steep slopes at 1300-1500 meters altitude, Haiti.