Merxmuellera davyi (C.E.Hubb.) Conert

Perennial, tufted, up to 1 m high. Leaf blades up to 600 mm long, up to 1.5 mm wide, dead leaves breaking off above sheath mouth and remains curling into a tight spiral. Spikelets 15-17 mm long (including awns), 6-8 mm wide (including awns). Panicle dense, 150-250 mm long; spikelets 2-4-flowered; glumes 11-13 mm long, 1-nerved; lemmas 7.5-9.0 mm long, including lemma lobes which are adnate to central awn for a quarter to three-quarters of their length, ending in a short bristle; lemma body with 3 unequally spaced tufts of white hairs on either side of central nerve, the most basal tuft being marginal and closer to base of lemma than other 2 tufts which are equidistant, or almost so, from lemma base; central awn 12 mm long.