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Perennial 150-300 mm high, forming low, rounded cushions or mat-forming; stolons present; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; stalked, crateriform glands on leaf margins and pedicels. Leaf blade 60-180 x 2-5 mm, expanded, rigid, margins smooth, darker coloured above than below; sheath mouth glabrous or hairy. Inflorescence open to spike-like, 20-50 x 10-30 mm, with ±70 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets; axils hairy. Spikelet 4-6 mm long, awned or awnless; glumes acute, yellow, base greenish grey, glabrous; lemma 3 mm long, hairy at base, along keel and margins, apex lobed or acute; lateral awns 0.5 mm long (when present), not reaching glume apices; central awn 4 mm long (when present); palea glabrous; anthers 1.6 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.6 m high; cushion-forming; cushions low; rounded; or sometimes with stolons stalked; crateriform glands on leaf margins and pedicels. Culms mat-forming. Leaf blades 60-180 x 2-5 mm; basally aggregated. Flowers: inflorescence open to spike-like; with ± 70 spikelets; with basal pedicel segments as long as spikelets; spikelets 4-6 mm long; glumes acute; glabrous; lemmas awned or not awned; lateral awns 0.5 mm long (when present); not reaching glume apices; central awn 4 mm long (when present).
