Tufted perennial, often short lived; culms 10–40 cm. high, erect or ascending.. Leaf-blades flat or involute, 2–15 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, stiff, glaucous, often forming a compact cushion.. Panicle ovate, 3–10 cm. long, open, with or without glands on the slender pedicels.. Spikelets 5–18-flowered, linear, 3.5–11 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, grey-green to purplish green, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, the lower a lanceolate hyaline scale 0.3–1 mm. long, the upper ovate and 0.8–1.3 mm. long; lemmas broadly elliptic to rotund, 1.1–1.7 mm. long, appressed to the rhachilla, obtuse; palea minutely scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.1–0.2 mm. long.. Caryopsis oblong-ellipsoid, 0.6–1.2 mm. long.. Fig. 62/11, p. 196.
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