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Caespitose perennial from a short underground rhizome, the basal sheaths ± persistent, sometimes fibrous and tomentose; culms 10–120 cm. high, erect or sometimes geniculate.. Leaf-blades convolute or flattened, 7–35 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, firm, glaucous.. Panicle narrowly ovate and spreading or linear and contracted, 4–11 cm. long, the spikelets shortly (1–2 mm.) pedicelled on the primary branches or sometimes on short secondary branchlets.. Spikelets 3–35-flowered, ovate to suborbicular, 3.5–15 mm. long, 3–7 mm. wide, plump, brownish green suffused with purple and with light brown glumes, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes ovate to ovate-elliptic, subequal, 3–4 mm. long, 1–3-nerved, acute to acuminate; lemmas broadly elliptic, 2.5–4 mm. long, cartilaginous with a granular surface, distinctly 3-nerved, rounded on the back, subobtuse; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels minutely puberulous, neither thickened nor winged; anthers 3, 1.4–1.8 mm. long.. Caryopsis elliptic, dorsally flattened, 2 mm. long.. Fig. 61/6, p. 193.
Tufted perennial, up to 900 mm high; basal sheaths glabrous to hairy but base not woolly-hairy; leaves mainly basal. Leaf blade 70-350 x 2-5 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a sparsely branched or unbranched panicle; spikelets appressed to main axis or branches. Spikelets 3.5-15.0 mm x 3-7 mm, plump, opposite row of florets overlapping and closely packed, rachilla not visible; rachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, 1-nerved. Florets many; lemma obtuse to subobtuse, entire, dull, granular, greenish to greenish brown, strongly flushed with purple, 3-nerved, lateral nerves distinct; palea narrowly obovate, keels entire, membranous to subcartilaginous between keel and margins, margins nearly touching to touching in lower parts to widely separated in upper parts; anthers 3, 1-2 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Caryopsis elliptic.
Perennial; up to 0.9 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 70-350 x 2-5 mm; basal sheaths glabrous to hairy but not woolly hairy at base; leaves mainly basal. Flowers: panicle sparsely branched or unbranched; spikelets 3.5-15.0 x 3-7 mm; appressed to main axis or branches; spikelets plump; with opposite row of florets overlapping and closely packed with rachilla not visible; with rachilla persistent; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from base upwards; pedicels < 2 x length of spikelets; lemmas 2.5-4.0 mm long; obtuse to subobtuse; dull and granular; greenish to greenish brown; strongly flushed with purple; lateral nerves distinct; palea narrowly obovate; keels entire; membranous to subcartilaginous between keel and margins; margins nearly touching to touching in lower parts to widely separated in upper parts; anthers 3; 1-2 mm long; caryopsis elliptic.
Perennial, tufted, up to 0.9 m high. Leaf blades 70-350 mm long, 2-5 mm wide. Basal sheaths. glabrous to hairy but not woolly-hairy at base; leaves mainly basal. Spikelets 3.5-5.0 mm long, 3-7 mm wide. Inflorescence sparsely branched or unbranched, spikelets appressed to main axis or branches; spikelets plump, with opposite row of florets overlapping and closely packed with rhachilla not visible, with rachilla persistent, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from base upwards; lemma obtuse to subobtuse, dull and granular, greenish to greenish brown, strongly flushed with purple, lateral nerves distinct; palea narrowly obovate, keels entire, membranous to subcartilaginous between keel and margins, margins nearly touching to touching in lower parts to widely separated in upper parts; anthers 3, 1-2 mm long. Caryopsis elliptic.
Spikelets 3.5–15 × 3–7 mm, ovate to suborbicular, plump, 3–35-flowered, the florets disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent; glumes subequal, 3–4 mm long, reaching to about 4/5 the way along the adjacent lemmas, dorsally rounded, ovate to ovate-elliptic, glabrous, acute to acuminate at the apex; lemmas 2.5–4 mm long, dorsally rounded, broadly elliptic, cartilaginous with distinct lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla at more than 45°, those in opposite rows not imbricate, the rhachilla visible between them, brownish-green suffused with purple (the glumes brown throughout), glabrous, the surface granular, subacute at the apex; palea deciduous with or soon after the lemma, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, puberulous; anthers 3, 1.4–1.8 mm long.
Caespitose perennial with short horizontal rhizome; culms up to 120 cm tall, erect or ascending, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; basal leaf sheaths glabrous or tomentose, chartaceous, terete, eglandular, persistent or sometimes decaying into a cushion of fibres; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 7–35 cm × 2–5 mm, linear, flat or convolute, firm and glaucous, glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 4–11 cm long, narrowly ovate, open and spreading or linear and contracted, the spikelets shortly pedicelled (1–2 mm) on the primary branches or on short secondary branchlets, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular.
Perennial to 90 cm. Leaves linear. Spikelets in a raceme or sparsely branched panicle, 4-15 x 3-7 mm, plump, straw-coloured and purplish, lowest lemmas obtuse, lateral nerves distinct.
Caryopsis c. 2 mm long, elliptic, dorsally flattened.
