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Tufted perennial 250-700 mm high; basal sheaths brown, soon rotting away; leaves basal; stalked, crateriform glands on leaf-margins and glumes. Leaf blade to 150 x to 4 mm, expanded, hairy; margins smooth; sheath mouth with a ring of bristles. Inflorescence open, 130 x 50 mm, with ±100 spikelets; pedicel not hidden by spikelets, scaberulous, of variable length, shorter to longer than spikelets; axils hairy. Spikelet 4.5-5.0 mm long; glumes acuminate, pale green, scaberulous along keels; lemma 2.2 mm long, hairy basally and along keel and margins; lateral awns 1.5-2.5 mm long, extending up to and beyond glume apices; central awn 7 mm long, geniculate, erect; palea hairy in the upper third; anthers 1.6 mm long.
