Lintonia nutans Stapf

Shortly stoloniferous perennial tussock grass; culms 23–75 cm. high, slender, erect or geniculately ascending.. Leaf-blades up to 22 cm. long and 2.5–5 mm. wide, glabrous or rarely softly pilose.. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate, composed of (1–)2–4(–6) slender curving subsecund spike-like racemes 4–11.5 cm. long.. Spikelets 4–10-flowered, wedge-shaped, 5.3–11 mm. long, subsessile, biseriate, overlapping on the rhachis by up to half their length, straw-coloured often tinged with purple; glumes 1-nerved, lightly keeled, the lower narrowly lanceolate, 1.9–4.5 mm. long, acuminate, the upper oblong, 3.3–5.8 mm. long, obtuse; lemmas broadly elliptic to obovate, 4.4–6.7(–9.2) mm. long, tough and chartaceous, 7–11-nerved, the nerves thick and prominent and the outer ones confluent towards the base, appressed villous, the hairs with thickened sharp-pointed tips and mainly confined to 6 intercostal rows extending 1/3–3/4 the length of the lemma, occasionally the hairs more diffuse and ± obscuring the nerves, remainder of the lemma strigillose; awn 0.75–10.5 mm. long, shorter in the upper florets, densely scabrid, outwardly curved or flexuous from a stout base; palea ciliate on the keels, puberulous on the back.. Grain elliptic, 2–2.2 mm. long.. Fig. 84.