Densely tufted perennial 200-600 mm high. Leaf blade 50-300 mm long, filiform; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence 50-120 mm long, very slender, often flushed purple; spikelets sunken in rachis. Sessile spikelet 3-6 mm long; lower glume smooth; upper lemma less firm in texture than glumes, awnless; anther 2.0-2.5 mm long. Pedicel of suppressed pedicelled spikelet probably present but fused and indistinguishable from the internode.
Densely tufted perennial; culms 20–60 cm. high.. Leaf-blades filiform, 5–30 cm. long.. Spikes 5–16 cm. long, slender, long-exserted, purplish.. Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; lower glume 3–6 mm. long, obtuse.. Fig. 204.
Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; inferior glume 3–6 mm long, obtuse at the apex.
Racemes 5–16 cm long, slender, long-exserted, purplish.
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm high.
Caespitose perennial with filiform leaves
Leaf laminas 5–30 cm long, filiform.