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Densely tufted or mat-forming perennial 150-200 mm high; stolons very short; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; glands absent. Leaf blade to 40 x to 0.5 mm, rolled, rigid and hard, glabrous; margins scabrid; sheath mouth hairy. Inflorescence open, 20-50 x 20-30 mm, with ± 50 spikelets; pedicels scaberulous; axils hairy. Spikelet 4.5-5.0 mm long; glumes acuminate, straw-coloured, base purple, scaberulous; lemma hairy all over or only along keel and margins; lateral awns 1.0-1.5 mm long, not reaching to reaching glume apices; central awn 5-6 mm long, geniculate; palea hairy in upper half; anthers 1.8 mm long.
Perennial to 20 cm, with very short stolons. Leaves basal, linear, rolled, rigid. Spikelets 4.5-5.0 mm long, in an open panicle, lemma awns 5-6 mm long.
