Perennial; culms up to 60 cm. high, erect or ascending, tufted or stoloniferous.. Leaf-blades flat, 5–15 cm. long, 2–3 mm. wide; sheaths strongly keeled and flabellate at the base.. Inflorescence of 5–7 digitate loose or spreading spikes 9–10 cm. long.. Spikelets 4–6-flowered, 4–6-awned; lower glume 2 mm. long; upper glume 2.5–4 mm. long including the awn-point; lowest lemma ovate-elliptic in side view, 2.5 mm. long, pallid, long-ciliate along the keel, margins and flanks, the awn 12 mm. long, purplish; callus rounded, ciliate; 2nd lemma 1.75 mm. long, projecting from the side of the lowest lemma, similar in shape and pubescence, its awn 8–11 mm. long; 3rd–6th lemmas progressively smaller, ovate-elliptic glabrous awned scales.
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