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False panicle 15–45 cm long, lax; spatheoles 3–6 cm long, linear, russet-coloured, eventually inrolled; peduncles usually longer than the spatheoles, pilose above with spreading white hairs; racemes 2–3 cm long, 8–13-awned per pair, with white-pilose internodes and pedicels, terminally exserted on the flexuous peduncle, tardily and imperfectly deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the superior 2–3 mm long, terete, glabrous or sometimes thinly pilose, the articulation with the peduncle apex marked by a ring of white hairs or these sometimes brown or absent.
Tufted perennial 600-1 300 mm high; rhizomatous; basal sheaths with dense spreading white hairs. Leaf blade to 450 x 2-5 mm. Raceme bases terete, unequal, upper raceme base 2-3 mm long; raceme pairs with 6-14 awns. Sessile spikelet 5 to 6 mm long; yellowish-green to violet, with golden-yellow hairs; awns 20-40 mm long; callus linear or narrowly cuneate, 0.8-1.2 mm long. Pedicellate spikelet, 4.5-7.0 mm long, golden-yellow hairs, acute; anther 1.6-2.5 mm long.
Perennial, rhizomatous and tufted, up to 1.3 m high. Leaf blades up to 450 mm long, 2-5 mm wide. Basal sheaths with dense spreading white hairs. Spikelets (sessile) 5-6 mm long (yellowish green to violet, with golden-yellow hairs, callus linear or narrowly cuneate, 0.8-1.2 mm long). Raceme pairs with 6-14 awns 20-40 mm long; raceme bases terete, unequal, upper raceme base 2-3 mm long.
Sessile spikelets 5–6 mm long; callus 0.8–1.2 mm long, linear to narrowly cuneate, acute to very narrowly truncate at the apex; inferior glume narrowly lanceolate, yellowish-green to violet, densely pubescent with fulvous hairs; awn 2–4 cm long, the column fulvously pubescent with hairs 0.2–0.5 mm long.
Leaf sheaths at the base of the plant mostly woolly-tomentose with white hairs, occasionally merely pubescent; leaf laminas up to 45 cm × 2–5 mm, rigid, often coarsely pilose near the base.
A grass that keeps growing from year to year. It forms tufts and grows 1.5 m high. There are white hairs near the base of the leaf sheath. The leaf blade is 45 cm long by 2-5 mm wide.
Pedicelled spikelets 4.5–7 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute and muticous at the apex; callus absent; pedicel-tooth 0.2–0.5 mm long, subulate.
Homogamous spikelets 5–6 mm long, a single pair at the base of the inferior raceme only.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 200 cm high and 1–4 mm in diameter at the base.
Tufted perennial 0·6–1·5 m. high
