Halopyrum mucronatum Stapf

Tough stoloniferous perennial, the stolons rooting to form dense tussocks; roots thick and tomentose.. Culms up to 1 m. or more high, rigid, woody, branching, producing fascicles of shoots at the nodes.. Leaf-blades narrowly linear to setaceous, up to 45 cm. long, involute or opening out and up to 4 mm. wide, stiff, mostly glaucous; ligule a dense fringe of woolly hairs arising from a narrow basal rim.. Inflorescence linear to narrowly lanceolate, 10–40 cm. long, the branches loosely 3–7-spiculate; pedicels 1–5–6 mm. long.. Spikelets 8–25-flowered, lanceolate to ovate or oblong, 12–26 mm. long, 5–7 mm. wide, straw-coloured or tinged with purple; glumes narrowly ovate, 6–9 mm. long, coriaceous, acute; lemmas lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7–9 mm. long, asperulous or very minutely hairy; callus and rhachilla-tip bearded with white hairs 4–5 mm. long.. Fig. 57.