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Tufted perennial to 400 mm high, geniculate; basal sheaths glabrous or hairy but not woolly-hairy at base. Leaf blade to 150 x to 4.5 mm. Inflorescence open, lax to somewhat contracted; pedicels slender; spikelets distant to not densely crowded. Spikelet 3-5 x 3-4 mm, broadly ovate to oblong, pallid, green to dark grey; rachilla extremely fragile, breaking up from apex downwards; glumes broadly obtuse; lemma obtuse to rounded, lateral nerves distinct; palea broadly elliptic to round; keels distinct, entire, shortly ciliolate, margins wide apart, narrowing upwards; anthers 3, 0.8-1.3 mm long; caryopsis broadly elliptic.
Perennial, tufted (geniculate), up to 400 mm tall. Leaf blades up to 150 mm long, up to 4.5 mm wide. Basal sheaths glabrous or hairy but not woolly-hairy at base. Spikelets 3-5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide. Inflorescence open and lax to somewhat contracted; spikelets pallid, green to dark grey, broadly ovate to oblong, rhachilla extremely fragile, breaking up from apex downwards; lemma obtuse to rounded, lateral nerves distinct; palea broadly elliptic to round, keels entire, shortly ciliolate; anthers 3.0,8-1.3 mm long. Caryopsis broadly elliptic.
Perennial; up to 0.4 m high; tufted; geniculate; rhizome absent. Leaf blades up to 150 x 4.5 mm; basal sheaths glabrous or hairy; but not woolly hairy at base. Flowers: panicle open and lax to somewhat contracted; spikelets 3-5 x 3-4 mm; pallid; green to dark grey; broadly ovate to oblong; rachilla extremely fragile; breaking up from apex downwards; lemmas obtuse to rounded; lateral nerves distinct; palea broadly elliptic to round; keels entire; shortly ciliolate; anthers 3; 0.8-1.3 mm long; caryopsis broadly elliptic.
Perennial, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves linear; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an open to contracted panicle, lowest branches not whorled. Spikelets 3-5 x 3-4 mm, rotund, sides rounded, rhachilla very fragile and breaking from apex downwards, glumes blunt, boat-shaped, subequal; lemma obtuse, lateral nerves distinct, glandless; anthers 0.8-1.3 mm long.
Perennial to 45 cm. Leaves linear. Spikelets in a lax panicle, 3-5 x 3-4 mm, lowest lemma obtuse, lateral nerves distinct.
