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Tufted perennial 300-600 mm high; cushion-forming or tangled; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; glands absent. Leaf blade 150-300 x 0.3-1.0 mm, rolled, usually curly, glabrous; margins scabrid; sheath mouth glabrous, occasionally with few bristles. Inflorescence open, 50-120 x 20-60 mm, with 4-25 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous or scaberulous; axils glabrous. Spikelet 8-13 mm long; glumes acuminate, pale yellow, base purplish, glabrous; lemma 4-5 mm long, hairy along nerves; lateral awns 5-9 mm long, extending to glume apices; central awn 13-21 mm long; palea glabrous or hairy in upper third; anthers 2.5-4.0 mm long.
Tangled or caespitose perennial to 60 cm. Leaves linear, rolled, curly, sheath mouth sometimes with a few bristles. Spikelets 8-13 mm long, rather few in a lax, open panicle.
