Densely tufted perennial with culms up to 15 cm. high.. Leaf-blades rolled, folded or flat, 2–5 cm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, acute.. Spikes curved, flexuous or coiled, rarely straight, up to 8 cm. long, 1 mm. wide; rhachis herbaceous, fracturing at the base or from the apex, ultimately into segments of 1–2 spikelets.. Spikelets in subopposite or adjacent ranks, superficially embedded; lower glume 0.5 mm. long, truncate; upper glume (5–)6–21 mm. long (including the awn), acuminate or drawn out into a flexuous awn, (1–)3-nerved; lemma elliptic-oblong, (1.5–)2–3 mm. long, 3-nerved, the mucro up to 0.5 mm. long.. Caryopsis elliptic-oblong, 1.2–2 mm. long.. Fig. 85.
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