Tufted, erect, coarse perennial 500-950 mm high; rhizomatous; leaves and sheaths glabrous. Leaf blade 200-600 x 3-6 mm, erect, in-rolled; auricles absent or poorly developed; ligule 2-3(-4) mm long. Inflores-cence a lax pyramidal panicle to 200 x 20-60 mm, branches bare on lower half; spikelets shortly pedicelled; pedicels and branches densely strigose or scabrid. Spikelet 6-9 mm long, 4-6-flowered; glumes un-equal, lower 1-nerved, upper 3-nerved; lemma acute or with awn shorter than 0.5 mm; anthers 0.8-3.5 mm long.
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