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Tufted perennial; culms 40–120 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades 5–25 cm. long, 3–8 mm. wide, appressedly pubescent, acute.. Inflorescence composed of 3–12 racemes, each 5–15 cm. long, ± silky with white or violet hairs.. Spikelets lanceolate, 5–7 mm. long; lower glume shallowly concave on the back with 2 intercarinal nerves, light brown, sparsely villous or glabrous, ciliate on the keels above, minutely truncate; lower lemma 4–7 mm. long, firmly membranous below, hyaline above; upper lemma bifid for 1/3–1/2 its length, with an awn 1–2 cm. long.. Fig. 165.
Tufted perennial 300-1400 mm high; culm erect. Leaf blade 50-250 x 3-8 mm; sheath hairy; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence of (2-)3-5(10) racemes, hairs white. Sessile and pedicellate spikelets alike, 5-7 mm long, 2-flowered; lower glume concave to ± flat on back, only keel conspicuously hairy; upper lemma awn 15-20 mm long; awn geniculate and twisted, glabrous; anther 2.3-3.3 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 1.4 m high. Leaf blades 50-250 mm long, 3-8 mm wide. Culms erect; sheaths hairy. Spikelets 5-7 mm long (sessile and pedicellate alike). Raceme hairs white; lemma awns 15-20 mm long.
Inferior glume shallowly concave on the back with 2 intercarinal nerves, light brown, glabrous or sparsely villous, ciliate on the keels above, minutely truncate.
Perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear, basal sheaths hairy. Spikelets in digitately arranged spike-like branches, white-hairy, 5-7 mm long, awns 15-20 mm.
Inflorescence of 3–12 racemes each 5–12 cm long, silky with white or violet hairs.
Superior lemma bifid for 1/3–1/2 its length, with an awn 10–20 mm long.
Inferior lemma 4–7 mm long, membranous below, hyaline above.
Leaf laminas 3–8 mm wide, appressedly pubescent, acute.
Spikelets 5–7 mm long, lanceolate.
Culms 40–120 cm high, erect.
Caespitose perennial.
