Perennials. Flowering culms (12.5–) 22–30 (–70) cm high. Leaves glabrous or pilose with simple and/or glandular hairs; blade disarticulating, convolute, filiform, acuminate to acute. Panicles linear, contracted, spiciform, longer than wide, (1.5–) 3–4 (–10) cm long, 0.8–1.5 cm wide (including awns). Spikelets with 3–5 (–6) florets (1 bisexual). Glumes unequal, acuminate or acute, pubescent (hairs glandular); lower glume 3.6–5 mm long, 9–15-nerved; upper glume 4.6–8.8 mm long, 7–11-nerved. Basal lemma: body 1.6–2.2 mm long, shorter than wide, cartilaginous to indurated, usually slightly ridged at base of lobes, with margins ciliate or hairless, usually obscurely 9–11-nerved (often green), with erect or spreading frequently sparse hairs arising in the lower 1/2–3/4 and usually not exceeding the lobe bases; lemma lobes 9, distinctly longer than body, (2–) 3–9 mm long; palea ±equal to lemma body, membranous, with keels ciliate or scaberulous for most of the length, with body pubescent (sometimes sparsely in upper part) or glabrous, with flaps pilose or pubescent. Anthers 0.8–1.3 mm long.
Growsmostly on clays and clay loams, in scrub or Eucalyptus open forest, occasionallyon lighter soils and in open places with other grasses.
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