Hyparrhenia filipendula var. pilosa (Hochst.) Stapf

Perennial. Culms loosely tufted, slender, 1–2 m tall, branching. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades tough, 15–40 × 0.3–0.6 cm, glabrous, margins scabrid; ligule ca. 2 mm. Spathate panicle with many slender spatheoles in crowded fascicles from each spathe; spatheoles very narrowly linear, 4–6 × 0.1–0.3 cm, becoming reddish; peduncle filiform, flexuously exserted near spatheole tip, glabrous or thinly white bearded. Racemes 2(–4)-awned per pair, awns often twisted together, not reflexed at maturity; raceme bases very unequal, glabrous, the upper filiform, 5–8 mm; 1 pair of homogamous spikelets at base of lower raceme, 2 pairs at base of upper raceme. Sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate, 5–6 mm; callus pungent, 2–3 mm, white bearded; lower glume linear-oblong, pubescent to villous with white hairs; awn 3–5 cm, the column hirsute with brown 0.7–1.2 mm hairs. Pedicelled spikelet 5–6.5 mm, tipped with a 1–5 mm bristle. Fl. and fr. Jul–Dec.