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Glumes lanceolate, the inferior c. 2.6 mm long, the superior c. 6 mm long; lemma of fertile floret 4.4–7 mm long, with an awn 10–19 mm long; 2nd lemma 1.4–4 mm long, with an awn 7–13 mm long; 3rd lemma (when present) 1–1.5 mm long, with an awn c. 5 mm long.
Caespitose perennial; culms wiry, up to 80 cm tall; leaf sheaths keeled, sparsely to densely pilose, especially on the margins; leaf laminas 8–20 cm × 2–6 mm, involute and filiform or flat and linear.
Spikelets 2–3-flowered, the lowermost floret fertile, the other 2 sterile.
Raceme 6–14 cm long.
