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Tufted perennial 350-1400 mm high; rhizome short, robust, knotty, unbranched, sometimes stoloniferous; basal sheaths silky hairy; culms simple or branched. Leaf blade 50-400 x 2-14 mm. Inflorescence digitate, of 3-15 racemes, 50-200 mm long; rachis triquetrous, winged, glabrous to scaberulous, margins scabrous; pedicel scabrous, long hairs at apex absent; spikelets paired. Spikelet 2.2-4.0 mm long, hairy; lower glume a membranous scale, ovate to triangular; upper glume 1/3-2/3 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved, hairy; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 7-nerved, nerves evenly spaced or with broader central interspaces, smooth or sometimes scaberulous, bristle hairs present or absent; upper glume and lower lemma covered with purple and silvery hairs to 1 mm long; upper lemma shorter than spikelet, greenish to brown, partly exposed; anthers 1.8-2.2 mm long.
Perennial; up to 1.4 m high; sometimes stoloniferous or tufted with knotty and unbranched rhizomes. Culms simple or branched; basal leaf sheaths silky and hairy; not rusty brown. Leaf blades 50-400 x 2-14 mm; ligule < 3.5 mm long. Flowers: inflorescence digitate; racemes 3-15; 50-200 mm long; spikelets 2.2-4.0 x 1 mm; lower glume a membranous scale; ovate to acute; upper glume 1/3-2/3 as long as spikelet; lower lemma as long as spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma covered with hairs 1 mm long; purple and silvery.
Perennial, sometimes stoloniferous or tufted and rhizomatous, up to 1.4 m high. Rhizomes knotty and unbranched. Leaf blades 50-400 mm long, 2-14 mm wide. Culms simple or branched, basal leaf sheaths silky and hairy. Spikelets 2.2-4.0 mm long, 1 mm wide. Racemes 3-15, digitate, 50-200 mm long; lower glume a membranous scale, ovate to acute; upper glume a third to two-thirds as long as spikelet; lower lemma as long as spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma covered with hairs 1 mm long, purple and silvery.
Perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear to lanceolate. Spikelets in 3-15 digitately arranged racemes, lower lemma hairy, intervein area equal or broadest next to midrib.
