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Racemes in pairs, 3–4.5 cm long, zig-zag, exserted from the spatheoles at maturity; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels filiform, divergent, clavate above, ciliate on both margins, the hairs much longer towards the apex.
Sessile spikelet: inferior glume with broad median groove, glabrous; superior lemma bifid to about half way; awn geniculate, 11–15.5 mm long; anthers 2–2.5 mm long, straw-coloured.
Leaf-sheaths usually glabrous, rarely ciliate at the mouth, but specimens from Bintumane have the upper part of the sheath and lower part of the blade densely pilose
Leaves glabrous; ligule a very short (c. 0.5 mm) minutely fringed membrane; laminas 5–17 cm × 2.5–5 mm, flat or folded, abruptly acute at the apex.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 170 cm high, erect, usually branched.
Pedicelled spikelet male; inferior glume with an awn 1–2 mm long.
Spikelets similar, 4.5–5.5 mm long, reddish.
Caespitose perennial 0·6–2 m. high
