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Perennial, 300-900 mm high; leaves mainly cauline; culms straggling, slender, wiry, sometimes decumbent and rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 50-170 x 2-8 mm, linear, rough; ligule an unfringed or fringed membrane. Inflorescence of racemes, 60-120 mm long on central axis, usually flexuous, of (3-)5-9 spikelets spread along rachis. Spikelets 12-44 x 1.5-4.0 mm, slightly laterally compressed; glumes unequal, shorter than spikelet, 5-9-nerved. Florets 5-22, bisexual; lemma entire, rounded on back, glabrous, 5-7-nerved, awn 4-8 mm long, straight; anther 2.0-2.5 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Apr.
Perennial; up to 0.9 m high. Culms straggling; slender; wiry; sometimes decumbent and rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blades 50-170 x 2-8 mm; leaves mainly cauline; linear; soft; spreading. Flowers: inflorescence subdigitate; elongate; racemes 60-120 mm long; usually flexuous; with (3-)5-9 spikelets spread along rachis; spikelets 12-44 mm long; lemma awns 4-8 mm long.
Perennial 300-900 mm high; leaves mainly cauline; culms straggling, slender, wiry, sometimes decumbent and rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 50-170 x 2-8 mm, linear, rough. Racemes 60-120 mm long, usually flexuous, (3-)5-9 spikelets spreading along the rachis. Spikelet 12-44 x 1.5-4.0 mm; lemma awn 4-8 mm long; anther 2.0-2.5 mm long.
Perennial, culms straggling, slender, wiry, sometimes decumbent and rooting at lower nodes, up to 0.9 m high. Leaf blades 50-170 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, leaves mainly cauline, linear. Spikelets 12-44 mm long. Racemes 60-120 mm long, usually flexuous, with (3-) 5-9 spikelets spread along rhachis; lemma awn 4-8 mm long.
Culms up to 100 cm. tall, 5-many-noded, usually branched below, rarely simple, straggling, ascending from a geniculate base, or often decumbent and rooting from the lower nodes, terete, wiry, rather slender, smooth, glabrous or sometimes hairy below the nodes; nodes finely pubescent.
Leaf-laminae 5-15 x 0.3-0.8 cm., linear, long tapering to a fine flexible point, dark-green to glaucous, somewhat rigid to almost flaccid, usually scattered pilose, sometimes glabrous, smooth on the upper, scaberulous on the lower surface.
Glumes with the apex acute to acuminate, chartaceous, strongly nerved; inferior 3-6 mm. long, (3)4-5-nerved, narrowly triangular to lanceolate-subulate; superior 5-8.5 mm. long, 7-nerved, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong.
Leaf-sheaths shorter than the internodes, striate, tight at first, later slipping off the culm, with a row of spreading hairs along the margins, otherwise glabrous or rarely scattered pilose.
Lemmas 6-8 mm. long, 7-nerved, firmly membranous, lanceolate, tapering into the awn, inconspicuously scaberulous, rarely shortly pubescent; awn 3-7.5 mm. long, slender, straight.
Raceme 4-15 cm. long, erect or more often pendulous, bearing 3-9 spikelets; rhachis very slender, frequently curved, compressed, glabrous, scabrous mainly along the margins.
Spikelets 1.25-4.5 cm. long, 7-many-flowered, usually overlapping but sometimes remote, horizontally spreading to obliquely ascending, glabrous or thinly pubescent.
Straggling perennial to 90 cm. Leaves linear, soft. Spikelets 5-9 in flexuose racemes, lemma awns 4-8 mm long.
Paleas 7-8 mm. long, with rigid cilia along the keels.
Pedicels hardly more than 1.5 mm. long.
Weak-stemmed perennial 30–90 cm. high.
Ligule c. 1 mm. long, truncate.
Anthers c. 3 mm. long, linear.
A very variable perennial.
