Festuca abyssinica is a species of grass which is endemic to Africa.

[2] The glumes are lanceolate, membranous, and keelless, have acute apexes, with the only difference being in size.

Fertile lemma is 6.5–9.5 millimetres (0.26–0.37 in) long and is also chartaceous, elliptic and keelless with scaberulous surface.

[2] Festuca abyssinica grows in mountain grasslands, generally in moist and often peaty soils.

[3] It ranges along the mountains of eastern Africa, from Ethiopia through Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia to eastern Zimbabwe, and in the Tibesti Mountains of Chad, the Cameroon Highlands of Cameroon, Bioko, and the highlands of Angola.