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Tufted, mat-forming, rhizomatous perennial, 120-900 mm high. Leaf blade 5-15 x 3 mm, narrowly to broadly lanceolate; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence an ovoid to subspherical spike-like panicle, 40-100 mm long, usually white; involucre enclosing 1 or 2 sub-sessile spikelets; involucral bristles unequal, some 4-5x as long as spikelet, most of them ± 30 mm long, plumose in lower part, occasionally outer ones sparsely plumose to glabrous, white, often turning yellowish at maturity. Spikelet 9-14 x 4 mm; glumes unequal; lower glume 0.8-1.0 mm long, obtuse or absent; upper glume triangular, 3.0-4.0 mm long, 1/4-2/3 length of spikelet, acute. Florets 2; lower floret male or sterile, lemma acuminate, scabrid on nerves, 6-13-nerved, palea reduced; upper floret bisexual, lemma membranous, acute, 5-nerved, nerves scabrid; anther 3.2-3.5 mm long, without tuft of hairs at apex. Flowering time Jan.-May.
Tufted, mat-forming perennial 200-900 mm high; rhizomatous; culms geniculate. Leaf blade 8-15 x 3 mm, narrowly to broadly lanceolate; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence 40-100 mm long, ovoid to sub-spherical, usually white; involucre enclosing 1 to 2 spikelets; involucral bristles unequal, some 4-5 x as long as spikelet, most of them about 30 mm long, plumose in lower part, occasionally outer sparely plumose to glabrous, white, often turning yellowish at maturity; stipe basal, 0.5-1.0 mm long, hairy. Spikelet 9-14 x 4 mm; lower glume 0.8-1.0 mm long, obtuse; upper glume triangular, 3-4 mm long, 1/4-2/3 the spikelet length, acute; lower floret male or sterile, lemma acuminate, scabrid on nerves, 6-13-nerved, palea reduced; upper lemma membranous, acute, 5-nerved, nerves scabrous; anthers 3.2-3.5 mm long, without tuft of hairs at apex.
Perennial; up to 0.9 m high; tufted and rhizomatous; mat-forming. Culms geniculate. Leaf blades 8-15 x 3 mm. Flowers: inflorescence a spike; involucral bristles nearly all plumose; some 4-5 x as long as spikelet; mostly ± 30 mm long; spikelets 9-14 x 4 mm; inflorescence usually white; 40-100 mm long.
Tufted perennial 3–7 dm; culms becoming villous distally; panicle tawny, ca 1 dm, the numerous slender bristles very plumose, spreading, 3–5 cm; spikelets ca 1 cm; 2n=18, 27, 36, 45, 54. Native of Afr., cult. for ornament, and occasionally escaped along the s. border of our range.
Perennial, tufted, up to 0.9 m high. Leaf blades 8-15 mm long, 3 mm wide. Spikelets 9-14 mm long, 4 mm wide. Inflorescence usually white, 40-100 mm long; involucral bristles nearly all plumose, some 4-5 times as long as spikelet, most of them ± 30 mm long.
Handsome plumose involucres up to 7 cm. long.
Perennial
