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Loosely tufted perennial 500-1800 mm high; rhizomatous; culms slender. Leaf blade 80-200 x 2-5 mm. Raceme bases terete, unequal, upper raceme base (2.0-)2.5-3.5 mm long, homogamous spikelets 0-1 pair at base of upper raceme; raceme pairs with 4-5 awns. Sessile spikelet 4.0-5.5 mm long, white-hispidulous; awn 20-30 mm long; callus cuneate, 0.8-1.5 mm long. Pedicellate spikelet 5-6 mm long, glabrous, acute, muticous or with a short mucro 1-2 mm long; anther 1.7-2.3 mm long.
False panicle 10–35 cm long, narrow, lax; spatheoles 3–4 cm long, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, reddish-brown; peduncles 1/2–3/4 as long as the spatheoles, pilose above with white hairs; racemes 1–1.5 cm long, 4–5-awned per pair, laterally exserted, not or sometimes tardily deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, divergent, the superior (2)2.5–3.5 mm long, terete, stiffly pilose with white bulbous-based hairs, the articulation with the peduncle glabrous.
Perennial, rhizomatous and tufted (loosely), up to 1.8 m high. Leaf blades 80-200 mm long, 2-5 mm wide. Culms slender. Spikelets (sessile) 4.0-5.5 mm long (white-hispidulous, callus cuneate, 0.8-1.5 mm long). Raceme pairs with 4 or 5 awns 20-30 mm long; raceme bases terete, unequal, upper raceme base (2.0-)2.5-3.5 mm long, homogamous spikelets 0 or 1 pair at base of upper racemes.
Sessile spikelets 4.5–5 mm long; callus 0.8–1.5 mm long, cuneate, acute at the apex; inferior glume linear-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, sparsely hispidulous; awn 2–3 cm long, the column pubescent with fulvous hairs.
Pedicelled spikelets 5–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, terminating in a short mucro 1–2 mm long; callus absent; pedicel-tooth short, broadly triangular.
Loosely caespitose perennial; culms up to 180 cm high and up to 2 mm in diameter, weakly erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes sprawling.
Leaf sheaths glabrous, or pubescent above; leaf laminas 8–20 cm × 2–5 mm, glabrous or thinly pilose, long-acuminate at the apex.
Homogamous spikelets c. 5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, a single pair at the base of the inferior or both racemes.
