Chionochloa flavescens subsp. hirta Connor

Leaf-sheath to 20 cm, purpled, internerves and margins hairy. Leaf-blade to 70 cm × 10 mm, abaxially glabrous but sometimes with long hairs and forming contra-ligule, adaxially with dense weft of long hairs at base and abundant prickle-teeth above. Inflorescence to 25 cm, very long hairy. Glumes often awned. Lemma to 6 mm; hairs dense on margins, fewer in internerves, ≈ sinus. Palea to 7 mm, usually shorter than in other subspp. Anthers to 4.5 mm.