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Loosely tufted perennial (200-)500-1500 mm high; old leaf sheaths flimsy, curly, not fibrous; culm erect or geniculate, usually hairy. Leaf blade 100-300 x 5-13 mm, scabrid, hairy, rarely glabrous; sheath hairy, at least, at base just above node. Inflorescence large, open, erect to nodding; branches and pedicels scabrid. Spikelet 10-30(40) x 2-6 mm (including awns), narrowly oblong to wedge-shaped, moderately laterally compressed, glabrous to shortly hairy; glumes unequal, acuminate or with awn up to 5 mm long; lower glume 1-nerved; upper 3-nerved; lemmas 8-12(16) mm long, rounded on back, hairy or glabrous, usually scaberulous to scabrid on nerves, margins hyaline, awned at or just below apex; awn 2-12 mm long; palea ciliate on keels, glabrous between keels; callus scar circular; anthers 2.2-3.0(5.0) mm long.
Loosely tufted perennial, (0.2-)0.5-1.5 m high; old leaf sheaths flimsy, curly, not fibrous; culm geniculate or weak and scandent. Leaf blade 100-300 x 5-13 mm, hairy or rarely glabrous; sheaths hispid; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence an open and nodding to contracted panicle; pedicels scabrid; culms glabrous below inflorescence. Spikelet 10-30 x 2-6 mm, narrowly oblong to wedge-shaped; glumes unequal, shorter than spikelet; awn up to 5 mm long; lower glume 1-3-nerved; upper 3-5-nerved. Florets 5-many; lemma entire or lobed, margins hyaline, hairy, awned below apex; awn 2-12 mm long; palea ciliate on keels, glabrous between keels; ovary with a conspicuous hairy appendage at apex; anther 2.2-3.0 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.
Perennial; up to 1.5 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 100-300 x 5-13 mm. Flowers: panicle open; pedicels scabrid; spikelets 10-30 x 2-6 mm; open or with flowers closely arranged; glabrous or scabrid; moderately laterally compressed to terete; usually pale green; lower glume 1-3-nerved; upper 3-5-nerved; lemmas 8-12 mm long; awns up to 5 mm long; anthers 2.2-3.0(5.0) mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 1.5 m high. Leaf blades 100-300 mm long, 5-13 mm wide. Spikelets 10-30 mm long, 2-6 mm wide. Panicle open, pedicels scabrid; spikelets open or with flowers closely arranged; lower glume 1-3-nerved, upper 3-5-nerved; lemmas 8-12 mm long, awns up to 5 mm long.
Panicle up to 28 cm. long, elliptic to broadly ovate in outline, open, lax, erect to slightly nodding; rhachis rather slender, angular, scabrous; branches filiform, very flexuous, angular, scaberulous, 2-3-nate, not divided in the lower 1/2-1/3; branchlets with 1-3-spikelets.
Leaf-laminae 8-30 x .-1.25(1.75) cm., linear, tapering to a soft point, expanded, flaccid, dark-green to glaucous, scaberulous on both surfaces or sometimes smooth below, scabrous along the margins, scattered pilose or rarely glabrous.
Lemmas 5-14 mm. long (excluding the awn), lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, prominently 3-7-nerved, with the apex entire or very shortly 2-dentate; awn 4-8 mm. long, subterminal, fine, straight, scaberulous.
Culms 30-100 cm. tall, 2-4-noded, erect or geniculately ascending from a decumbent base, terete, stout, usually pubescent to scattered pilose, rarely glabrous, finely asperulous, rarely smooth.
Glumes unequal, broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, membranous-scarious, with the apex acute to subacute; the inferior 5-11 mm. long, 1-nerved; the superior 7-14 mm. long, 3-nerved.
Spikelets 15-30 mm. long, loosely 5-12-flowered, linear-oblong in outline, moderately laterally compressed, light green, sometimes tinged with purple, glabrous or shortly pilose.
Leaf-sheaths usually tight, tubular, bluntly keeled, striate, scattered pilose to (rarely) glabrous, the lowermost ones long persistent but not splitting into fibres.
Perennial to 1.5 m. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Spikelets in an open panicle, 10-30 mm long, lower glume 3-5-nerved, upper glume 3-5-nerved, lemma awns to 5 mm long.
A loosely caespitose perennial, with a short rhizome, often stoloniferous.
Paleas 8-11 mm. long, with the keels rigidly ciliolate.
A handsome perennial up to 2 m. high
Ligule 2-5 mm. long, obtuse.
Anthers 2-3.75 mm. long.
Caryopsis c. 8 mm. long.
