Tufted perennial; culms hard, wiry, 1 m. high, erect.. Leaf-blades flat, up to 25 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, acuminate to a filiform tip.. Panicle lanceolate, 20–25 cm. long; primary branches spreading or ascending, 3–5 cm. long, distant in the lower part of the panicle, shorter and closer above, the spikelets borne singly or in little clusters upon them, to form dense secund pseudo-racemes; pedicels very short, hairy at the foot.. Spikelets 5–10-flowered, narrowly oblong, 3–6 mm. long, 1.2–1.5 mm. wide, pallid, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent or the upper nodes fragile; glumes lanceolate to narrowly ovate, subequal, 1.2–2 mm. long, acute; lemmas ovate, 1.7–2.2 mm. long, thinly membranous, acute; palea scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.4 mm. long.. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0–7 mm. long.
Home