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Densely tufted perennial, up to 800 mm high, shortly rhizomatous; leaves mainly basal; culms erect, slender, nodes densely hairy. Leaf blade 60-200(-260) x 3-8 mm, flat, bright green, usually loosely to densely hairy with long tubercle-based and some clavate hairs at apex; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a 50-200 mm long, loose, open or somewhat contracted panicle, clavate hairs present or absent. Spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm long, obtuse, dorsiventrally compressed, glabrous, light yellow-green usually tinged purple; glumes pectinate at apex; lower glume up to 1/2 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; upper glume 5-nerved. Florets 2; lower floret sterile, lemma pectinate at apex, 7-nerved, palea absent or reduced; upper floret bisexual; lemma indurated, smooth, dull, often flushed purple and shortly hairy towards apex, entire, margins only clasping edges of palea; palea as long as spikelet, shortly hairy towards apex. Flowering time Sept.-Apr.
Densely tufted perennial to 800 mm high, shortly rhizomatous; leaves mainly basal; culms erect, slender, nodes densely hairy. Leaf blade 60-200(-260) x 3-8 mm, flat, bright green; usually loosely to densely hairy with long tubercle-based hairs; some clavate hairs present at the apex; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence 50-200 mm long, loose, open or somewhat contracted, some axes sometimes with few to many clavate hairs. Spikelet 2.5-3.5 mm long, obtuse, glabrous, light yellow-green usually tinged with purple; glumes and lower lemma pectinate at the apex; lower glume up to 1/2 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; upper glume 5-nerved; lower floret sterile, lemma 7-nerved, palea absent or reduced; upper lemma dull, often flushed purple, shortly hairy towards apex; palea as long as spikelet, shortly hairy towards apex; anthers 1.7-2.2 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.8 m high; shortly rhizomatous; tufted. Culms erect. Leaf blades 60-200(-260) x 3-8 mm; leaves mainly basal; flat; bright green; usually densely hairy with long tubercle-based hairs. Flowers: panicle slightly contracted; branches purple; spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm long; usually flushed with purple; glumes and lower lemma pectinate at apex; lower floret sterile with palea absent; upper female-fertile lemma dull; often flushed purple and shortly hairy towards apex.
Perennial, shortly rhizomatous and tufted, up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades 60-200(-260) mm long, 3-8 mm wide, leaves mainly basal, flat, bright green, usually densely hairy with long tubercle-based hairs. Spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm long, usually flushed with purple; glumes and lower lemma pectinate at apex; lower floret sterile with palea absent; female-fertile (upper) lemma dull, often flushed purple and shortly hairy towards apex.
Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm. long, oblong, glabrous except for the puberulous apex; inferior glume 1/5–1/2 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved, pectinate; superior glume 1/2–3/4 the length of the spikelet, 5-nerved, pectinate; inferior lemma 3/4 to as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, pectinate; sterile; superior lemma and palea glossy, puberulous at the apex.
Panicle 6–12(18) cm. long, oblong or ovate, glabrous or clavellate-hairy, moderately to much-branched, the branches ascending or spreading usually fine and flexuous.
Leaves mostly basal, pilose with both simple and gland-tipped hairs; laminae 5–18(27) × 0.1–0.9 cm., linear to lanceolate, flat, bluntly to setaceously acute.
Perennial to 80 cm. Leaves linear, usually densely tubercled-hairy. Spikelets in an open panicle, ± 3 mm long, glumes and lemma pectinate.
Caespitose perennial, usually densely pubescent at the base.
A densely caespitose perennial about 30 cm. high.
Culms 15–80 cm. high, erect, simple.
