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Densely tufted perennial to 900 mm high; basal leaf sheath glabrous, sometimes thinly hairy; culms usually with sticky glandular patches below nodes and on leaf sheaths below collar (noticeable because soil particles adhere to patches), occasionally non-sticky. Leaf blade to 500 x to 5 mm. Inflorescence dense, sparsely branched, lowest branches not whorled; spikelets many, densely clustered. Spikelet 2.5-4.0 x 1.0-2.3 mm; rachilla fragile, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; glumes unequal; lemma 1.3-1.7 mm long, obtuse to subacute, lateral nerves distinct; palea keels distinct, slender, scaberulous, wingless, margins close to touching and overlapping near apex; anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm long; caryopsis oblong-elliptic.
Densely tufted perennial, up to 900 mm high; culms with sticky glandular patches below nodes and on leaf sheaths below collar, noticeable because soil particles adhere to patches. Leaf blade up to 500 x 4.5 mm; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a dense panicle; spikelets clustered on secondary branches; pedicels stout. Spikelets 2.5-4.0 x 1.0-1.8 mm, laterally compressed; rachilla fragile, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; glumes shorter than spikelet, 1-nerved. Florets many; lemma entire, 3-nerved; palea keels scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Caryopsis oblong-elliptic.
Perennial; up to 0.9 m high; densely tufted. Culms with sticky glandular patches below nodes and on leaf sheaths below collar; with sand grains adhering to patches. Leaf blades up to 500 x 4.5 mm. Flowers: panicle narrowly contracted; spikelets 2.5-4.0 x 1.0-1.8 mm; purplish brown; spikelet rachilla fragile; lemmas and/or paleae breaking up from apex downwards; palea keels scaberulous; palea margins touching to overlapping at apex; anthers 3; 0.5-0.8 mm long; caryopsis oblong-elliptic.
Caespitose perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 100(130) cm tall, erect, usually unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, with elongate sticky glands below the nodes; basal leaf sheaths glossy and glabrous (rarely thinly pilose), coriaceous, terete, with sticky glands below the collar, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 10–25(35) cm × 1.5–5 mm, narrowly linear, usually convolute, sometimes flat, glabrous or loosely and softly pilose, rather firm, eglandular.
Perennial, densely tufted, up to 0.9 m high. Leaf blades up to 500 mm long, up to 4.5 mm wide. Culms with sticky glandular patches below nodes and on leaf sheaths below collar, noticeable because of soil particles adhering to the patches. Spikelets 2.5-4.0 mm long, 1.0-1.8 mm wide; spikelet rhachilla fragile, lemmas and/or paleas breaking up from apex downwards; palea keels scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm long. Caryopsis oblong-elliptic.
Panicle 10–35 cm long, narrowly oblong to oblong or lanceolate, rather dense, the spikelets densely clustered on short secondary branchlets and with short stout pedicels 0.2–1 mm long, the primary branches ascending, rarely somewhat spreading, not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 0.6 mm long, narrowly elliptic.
