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Tufted perennial 500-700 mm high; base glabrous; basal sheaths either burnt off or white, shiny and persistent; leaves basal; glands absent. Leaf blade to 600 x to 0.5 mm, rolled, rigid, glabrous outside, densely woolly hairy inside along entire length; margins smooth; sheath mouth hairy. Inflorescence contracted, 120 x 30 mm, almost cylindrical with a tangled appearance, ±100 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous; axils hairy. Spikelet 7-10 mm long; glumes acute to acuminate, straw-coloured, glabrous; lemma 4-5 mm long, hairy all over; lateral awns 5-6 mm long, exserted from glumes; central awn 10-20 mm long; palea glabrous or with a few long hairs; anthers 2 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.7 m high; tufted; eglandular. Leaf blades up to 600 x 0.5 mm; leaves tough; densely woolly hairy inside. Flowers: inflorescence a panicle; spikelets 7-10 mm long; lemmas awned; central awn 10-20 mm long.
