Chionochloa rigida subsp. amara Connor

Leaf-sheath to 20 cm. Leaf-blade to 85 cm × 7 mm, abaxially with long hairs aside midrib at base; margin thick, long hairy below, becoming glabrous above. Inflorescence to 25 cm; rachis, branches and pedicels hairy or scabrid, sometimes glabrous below and ornamented above, long hairs below spikelets. Lemma to 6.5 mm; lateral lobes to 6 mm, triangular-acute or with awn to 2.5 mm, sometimes shortly lobed again; central awn to 16 mm from twisting column to 2 mm. Anthers to 4.5 mm.