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False panicle 15–30 cm long, narrow, congested; spatheoles linear-lanceolate, 2–3 cm long, green tinged with russet; peduncles ± half as long as the spatheole, glabrous or with a few hairs towards the summit; racemes 1.5–2.5 cm long, 5–7-awned per pair, seldom deflexed, laterally exserted; raceme-bases unequal, flattened, the superior 2.5–3 mm long, glabrous or sparsely ciliate on the margins, with a short scarious rim at the apex.
Sessile spikelet c. 5 mm long; callus c. 0.5 mm long, square to oblong or almost semicircular, broadly obtuse; inferior glume lanceolate, glabrous; awns 1.5–2.5 cm long, the column minutely puberulous.
Pedicelled spikelets c. 5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate; pedicel-tooth short, broadly triangular.
Homogamous spikelets 4–6 mm long, a single pair at the base of the inferior raceme only, glabrous.
Tufted perennial 1·2–1·8 m. high, closely resembling Cymbopogon
Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf laminas up to 30 cm × 5 mm.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 200 cm high, erect.
