Perennials, erect, sometimes stoloniferous. Flowering culms 55–75 cm high. Leaves: ligule 0.4–0.6 mm long; blade 4–10 cm long, 2–3 mm wide. Inflorescence branches (2–) 3–5 (–15), spreading, (4–) 5–7 (–10) cm long. Spikelets usually subsessile, 2 (–3)-flowered, with 1 floret bisexual. Glumes smooth or scaberulous, with midnerve scabrous; upper glume 2.5–4.1 mm long. Callus bearded. Basal lemma (2–) 3–5 (–5.4) mm long, minutely lobed, cartilaginous, sulcate, often scaberulous or punctate, glabrous or puberulous, with appressed hairs less than 0.3 mm long on the upper half of the submargins; awn 1, (2–) 4–7 (–17) mm long. Caryopsis narrowly elliptic, 2.5–3 mm long, reddish brown. Incomplete florets 1 or rarely 2, embraced by the incurved margins of the bisexual lemma; lemma truncate, notched, inflated, awned.
Recorded mostlyfrom duplex soils of light-to medium-textured A horizon, including yellowpodsolics, but also from clay loams in Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) country, in belah, box, sandalwood and wilga scrubsand woodlands, with other grasses, or in monsoon or eucalypt forests.
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