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Tufted perennial, 0.5-1.5 m high; culms sparsely to densely pilose; old leaf sheaths breaking into fibres or not, firm, erect. Leaf blade 200-400 x 4-8 mm, flat, glabrous to sparsely or densely hairy, smooth to rough; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence an open panicle; pedicels sparsely to densely hairy, longer than spikelets. Spikelet 15-45 x 4-8 mm (including awns), green to purple; glumes unequal, hairy, shorter than spikelet; lower glume 1-3-nerved, upper 3-5-nerved. Florets 3-many; lemma 10-20 mm long, villous, awn 3-12 mm long; palea ciliate on keel, sparsely to densely pilose between keels; ovary with a conspicuous hairy appendage at apex; anther 4-8 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-Mar.
Perennial; up to 1.5 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 200-400 x 4-8 mm wide. Flowers: panicle open; much exserted; pedicels sparsely to densely pilose; longer than spikelets; spikelets 15-45 x 4-8 mm; green to purple; moderately laterally compressed to terete; lower glume 1-3-nerved; upper 3-5-nerved; lemmas villous; 10-20 mm long; awns 3-12 mm long; anthers 4-8 mm long.
