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Loosely tufted perennial 400-800 mm high, forming diffuse tussocks; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; minute glands only on glume keels. Leaf blade to 300 x 1-5 mm, expanded; margins smooth or scabrid; sheath mouth hairy with dense almost bristle-like hairs; longest pedicels longer than spikelets. Inflorescence open, 50-170 x 50-170 mm, with ± 50 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous; axils glabrous or hairy. Spikelet 6-7 mm long; glumes acute, green to straw-coloured, glabrous, scaberulous or hairy in middle or along keels; lemma 2-3 mm long, hairy; lateral awns 3.5-7.0 mm long, extending up to and beyond glumes apices; central awn 9-13 mm long; palea hairy in upper third; anthers 2.5 mm long.
Perennial, loosely tufted (forming diffuse tussocks), up to 0.8 m high. Leaf blades up to 300 mm long, 1-5 mm wide. Spikelets 6-7 mm long; glume keels with small rounded glands; lemmas awned.
