Tufted perennial, the basal sheaths silky hairy and breaking up into fibres; culms 20–80 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades 10–30 cm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, glabrous or hirsute.. Inflorescence 7–15 cm. long, apparently spike-like, being composed of 3–7 racemes closely appressed to an elongated common axis; longest raceme 2–6 cm. with the rhachis triquetrous, densely setose, and bearing spikelets in groups of 2–6; pedicels bearing numerous white setae overtopping the spikelets.. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, 1.8–2.3 mm. long; lower glume absent; upper glume represented by a little nerveless hyaline scale; lower lemma as long as the spikelet or a little shorter, 3-nerved, glabrous; fruit ellipsoid, chestnut brown.
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