Tufted perennial to 300 mm high, evergreen; rhizomes elongated, mainly horizontal; some or all basal leaves and sheaths covered in long, silky, adpressed hairs. Leaf blade to 120 x to 6 mm, mostly expanded but sometimes with incurved margins, glabrous. Spikelet 11-18 x 10 mm, 3-4-flowered; glumes 10.6-17.8 mm long; lowest floret lemma 2.5-4.0 mm long, back glabrous, lobes absent, central awn 9-19 mm long, usually not geniculate; second lemma 1.8-3.0 mm long, densely covered in short, erect hairs, lateral lobe awn 5.1-8.4 mm long, central awn 11-17 mm long, geniculate; anther 2.8-4.0 mm long.
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