Tufted perennial 300-600 mm high; base compact with persistent sheaths often breaking up into fibres; leaves basal; glands absent. Leaf blade to 300 x to 0.5 mm, rolled, rigid, glabrous except inner surface near base; sheath mouth shortly hairy. Inflorescence contracted, almost linear, 40-120 x 10-20 mm, with ± 30 spikelets; pedicels not hidden by spikelets, glabrous; axils glabrous. Spikelet 8-11 mm long; glumes acuminate, golden-brown, glabrous; lemma 4.5-6.0 mm long, hairy, hairs arranged in ± 11 parallel rows; lobes 1.8-2.2 mm long; lateral awns 3-5 mm long, extending up to glume apices; central awn 8-10 mm long; palea as long as lemma; anthers 2-3 mm long.
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