Tufted perennial, 400-700 mm high; culm bases knotted; old basal leaf sheaths silky pubescent. Leaf blade 40-250 x 2-8 mm, base amplexicaul, bulbous-based hairs present, margins ciliate. Spikelet 3.0-4.5 mm long; upper floret palea papillose with globular warts; anthers 1.8-2.2 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 0.7 m high. Leaf blades 40-250 mm long (bases rounded to auriculate, margins ciliate); 2-8 mm wide. Spikelets 3.0-4.5 mm long. Culm bases knotted, with a few hairy old leaf sheaths. Palea with globular hairs.
Inflorescence of 4–10 racemes, usually in 1 whorl; racemes 3–12(20) cm. long, often bare at the base.
Superior lemma with an awn 0.5–4 mm. long, its palea papillose with globular-tipped hairs.
Tufted perennial, the basal sheaths silky pubescent and ± bulbously thickened.
Superior glume thinly cartilaginous, ciliate on the margins, acute.
Leaf laminae 2–8(10) mm. wide, linear.
Spikelets 2.5–5 mm. long.
Culms 40–70 cm. high.