Tufted perennial; culms 4–30 cm. high, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades flat or folded, up to 12 cm. long and 4 mm. wide; ligule 1–5 mm. long Panicle contracted, spike-like, 1–8 cm. long.. Spikelets 1-flowered, narrowly elliptic, at length gaping, 4–6.5 mm. long, light green often tinged with purple, the rhachilla not produced beyond the floret; glumes subequal, a little longer than the lemma, the lower narrowly elliptic and (1–)3-nerved, the upper lanceolate-elliptic and 3-nerved; lemma 3.5–4.5 mm. long, 3-nerved, glabrous or appressedly pubescent, denticulately obtuse.. Fig. 18.
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