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Densely tufted perennial, up to 1.1 m high; basal sheaths silky pubescent; leaves mostly basal. Leaf blade 140-350(-500) x 1.5-3.0 mm. Inflorescence an open ovate to elliptic panicle, 80-150 mm long, much branched. Spikelets 2.0-2.5(-3.0) mm long, ovate, dorsiventrally compressed, usually strongly flushed with purple; glume apices shortly mucronate, recurved; lower glume 1/2-3/4 length of spikelet, 5-nerved; upper glume 5-7-nerved. Florets 2; lower floret male, lemma 5-nerved, palea well developed; upper floret bisexual, lemma indurated, pale, smooth and shiny, entire, margins only clasping edges of palea. Flowering time Nov.-Apr.
Densely tufted perennial to 1100 mm high; basal sheaths silky pubescent; leaves mostly basal. Leaf blade 140-350(-500) x 1.5-3.0 mm. Inflorescence 80-150 mm long, ovate to elliptic; much branched. Spikelet 2.0-2.5(-3.0) mm long, ovate, usually strongly flushed with purple; glume apex shortly mucronate and recurved; lower glume 1/2-3/4 the spikelet length, 5-nerved; upper glume 5-7-nerved; lower floret male, lemma 5-nerved, palea well developed; upper lemma pale, smooth, shiny.
Perennial, tufted, up to 1.1 m high. Leaf blades 140-350(-500) mm long, 1.5-3.0 mm wide. Basal sheaths silky pubescent, leaves mostly basal. Spikelets 2.0-2.5(-3.0) mm long. Inflorescence 80-150 mm long; spikelets usually strongly flushed with purple; glume tips shortly mucronate and recurved; lower glume half to three-quarters the length of spikelet; upper glume 7-nerved; lower floret male, lemma 5-nerved and palea well developed; female-fertile (upper) lemma pale and shiny.
Spikelets 2–2.5(3) mm. long, ovate, glabrous, often purple tinged; inferior glume 1/2–2/3 as long as the spikelet, (3)5-nerved, recurved acute to acuminate; superior glume 5-nerved, recurved acute to acuminate; inferior lemma 5-nerved, its palea well developed, male; superior lemma smooth and glossy.
Leaves mostly basal; sheaths pubescent at the base; laminae (14)18–35(50) cm. long and 1.5–5 mm. wide, linear, acute or acuminate.
Panicles (8)12–20(30) cm. long, narrowly oblong to ovate, much branched.
Densely caespitose perennial with culms (30)50–130 cm. high.
Tufted, erect, 60–90 cm. high
