Elegia tectorum (L.F.) Moline & H.P.Linder

Plants tufted, 0.5-1.0 m high; without rhizomes or stolons or with very short rhizomes. Culms unbranched, round, solid or with a small central cavity, smooth or finely rugulose. Leaf sheaths > 1 per culm, caducous, loosely convolute, with a penicillate mucro, 1.6-5.5 mm long. Male inflorescences with 21-500 spikelets, spikelets flattened; spathes caducous, taller than spikelets, cartilaginous. Bracts shorter than flowers. Female inflorescences with 20-500 spikelets, spathes longer than and not obscuring spikelets, caducous, cartilaginous. Ovary trilocular; styles 3, white and plumose, bases free. Flowering time Apr.-June. Fruit a dehiscent capsule with elliptical brown seeds.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.