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Tufted perennial 200-550 mm high; rhizome oblique, up to 100 mm long; base sparsely to moderately hairy, covered with persistent, overlapping bases of old leaf-sheaths. Leaf blade 40-200 x 2-7 mm. Inflorescence subdigitate, of 2-3(-7) racemes 30-130 mm long; rachis triquetrous, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scaberulous; pedicel scaberulous; spikelets in clusters of 2-5. Spikelet 3-5 mm; lower glume 0.5-1.8 mm long, truncate, membranous; upper glume 1/2-2/3 length of spikelet, 3-nerved, covered with silvery or purplish hairs 1-2 mm long; internode absent; lower lemma as long as spikelet, 5-nerved, covered except for central interspace with silvery or purplish hairs 2-4 mm long; upper lemma shorter than spikelet, pale yellow; anthers 2.2-2.4 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.55 m high; rhizome horizontal to oblique; up to 100 mm long; covered with hairy; persistent; overlapping bases of old leaf sheaths; tufted. Culms erect. Leaf blades 40-200 x 2-7 mm. Flowers: inflorescence subdigitate; racemes 2 or 3(-7); 30-130 mm long; spikelets 3-5 x 1 mm; in clusters of 2-5; upper glume 1/2-2/3 length of spikelet; covered with silvery or purplish hairs 1-2 mm long; rachis narrowly winged; lower lemma flat; not grooved on either side of midrib; covered (except for central interspace) with silvery or purplish hairs 2-4 mm long.
Perennial, rhizomatous and tufted, up to 0.55 m high. Rhizome oblique, up to 100 mm long, covered with hairy, persistent, overlapping bases of old leaf sheaths. Leaf blades 40-200 mm long, 2-7 mm wide. Spikelets 3-5 mm long, 1 mm wide. Racemes 2 or 3(-7) subdigitate, 30-130 mm long; spikelets in clusters of 2-5; upper glume two-thirds to half length of spikelet, covered with silvery or purplish hairs 1-2 mm long; lower lemma covered (except for central interspace) with silvery or purplish hairs 2-4 mm long.
