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Inflorescence terminal, of single racemes each 5–7 cm long and fragile even when young; rhachis internodes and pedicels densely villous, the hairs pinkish or sometimes golden, the internodes and pedicels themselves yellowish to purple, subequal, subinflated.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 130 cm high, mostly erect; leaf laminas 4–15 cm × 5–8 mm, glaucous, tuberculately pilose near the base, prominently nerved, tapering to an acute point.
Pedicelled spikelet 3–4 mm long, barren, much reduced and represented only by its glumes, these similar to those of the sessile spikelet but the inferior longer than the superior.
