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Tufted perennial, 0.9-1.5 m high; robust, creeping rhizome often covered with short scale-like leaves, resulting in a plaited look. Leaf blade 80-300 x 3-10 mm; sheath hairy; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence a dense panicle, 120-300 mm long; spikelets usually in pairs; pedicels free. Spikelet 4-6 mm long, laterally compressed, brown, sometimes tinged with green or purple, glabrous; glumes unequal; lower glume acute to mucronate, 3-nerved; upper glume as long as spikelet, acuminate, 5-nerved. Florets 2; lower floret male, awnless; upper floret bisexual; lemma lobed, awn 3-6 mm long, longer than body of lemma, scabrid, column brown and twisted, bristle white; callus truncate, hairy; anther 1.0-1.5 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Mar.
Tufted perennial; 900-1500 mm high; rhizome creeping, often covered with short scale-like leaves, resulting in a plaited look. Leaf blade 80-300 x 3-10 mm; sheath hairy. Inflorescence 120-300 mm long, dense; spikelets usually in pairs. Spikelet 4-6 mm long, brown, sometimes tinged with green or purple; glumes unequal, acute; lemma awn 3-6 mm long, longer than body of lemma, scabrid, column brown and twisted, bristle white; callus truncate, hairy; anther 1.0-1.5 mm long.
Perennial; up to 1.5 m high; tufted; with creeping rhizome; often covered with short scale-like leaves; resulting in a plaited look. Leaf blades 80-300 x 3-10 mm. Flowers: panicle contracted; dense; 120-300 mm long; spikelets 4-6 mm long; usually in pairs; brown; sometimes tinged with green or purple; glumes unequal and acute; lower lemma with a truncate; hairy callus; awns 3-6 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 1.5 m high. Rhizome creeping, often covered with short scale-like leaves, resulting in a plaited look. Leaf blades 80-300 mm long, 3-10 mm wide. Spikelets 4-6 mm long. Panicle dense, 120-300 mm long, spikelets usually in pairs, brown, sometimes tinged with green or purple; glumes unequal and acute; lower lemma with a truncate, hairy callus, awns 3-6 mm long.
Robust, rhizomatous perennial to 1.5 m. Leaves linear, densely hairy. Spikelets in a dense panicle, 4-6 mm long, awned.
