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Weakly tufted perennial 400-700 mm high; base woody; basal sheaths white, shiny and persistent; leaves basal; obscure linear or sunken glands present on leaves or pedicels or absent. Leaf blade to 300 x 1-6 mm, expanded, glabrous or hairy; margins smooth; sheath mouth glabrous or with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 70-170 x 60-170 mm, ±100 spikelets; pedicels mostly erect, glabrous or rarely scaberulous; axils glabrous, rarely hairy. Spikelet 3.3-4.6 mm long, awnless; glumes acute, green or straw-coloured, base purple; lemma 2-3 mm long, acute or lobed, glabrous or hairy along keel and margins, hairs sometimes clavate; palea scaberulous near apex or often villous between keels; anthers 1.5-2.2 mm long.
Perennial to 70 cm, with woody base. Leaves linear, hairy, glandular. Spikelets 3.3-4.6 mm long, in an open, hemispherical panicle, pedicels glandular, longer than spikelets, lemmas muticous.
