Tufted perennial 300-500 mm high. Leaf blade 40-300 x 1.5-5.0 mm, erect, flat or rolled, often scabrous. Inflorescence a narrow panicle or raceme 50-200 mm long; pedicel hairy. Spikelet 5-9(-11) mm long; lemma of fertile floret hairy only on margins; lemma of sterile floret glabrous or with only a few hairs; anther 1.2-1.7 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.5 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 40-300 x 1.0-5.0 mm; erect; flat or rolled; often scabrous. Flowers: panicle or raceme narrow; 50-200 mm long; spikelets 5-9(-11) mm long; lemmas of female-fertile florets hairy only on margins; lemmas of sterile florets glabrous or with only a few hairs.
Perennial, up to 1 m tall. Leaves linear, often scabrous; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a silvery raceme or contracted panicle. Spikelets 5-9(-11) mm long, awnless, many-flowered but only lower 2 bisexual; glumes equal to spikelet; lemma long hairy on margins only, hairs 3-6 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 500 mm tall. Leaf blades 40-300 mm long, 1.0-5.0 mm wide (erect, flat or rolled, often scabrous). Spikelets 5-9(-11) mm long; lemmas of female-fertile florets hairy only on margins; lemmas of sterile florets glabrous or with only a few hairs.
Perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear, often scabrous. Spikelets in silvery racemes or panicles, lemmas hairy on margins.