Perennial tall bunchgrass with tufted stems, 50-100 cm tall, branches 1-3 at node. Leaves; Leaf-sheaths more or less tuberculate-hirsute on the margins with long usually lax hairs; ligule yellow-brown, membranous, truncate, white-fringed at edge; blades 40 cm long or less, 2-5 mm wide, rough or roughish, hirsute on the upper surface near the base; spathes 3-5 cm long, extending beyond the racemes. Racemes 2 (-3-4), 2-3 cm long. Spikelets; sessile spikelet 3-4 mm long, twice to half again as long as the internode, the awn straight, 10-15 mm long; pedicellate spikelet wanting or rarely present as a minute scale, pedicel exceeding the sessile spikelet. Flowers either sessile and hermaphrodite, or stalked and staminate, sterile or not developed. |
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