Cushion-forming, weakly perennial 150-400 mm high; basal sheath brown, soon rotting away; leaves cauline; linear glands on leaf margins and pedicels. Leaf blade 20-100 x 0.5-3.0 mm, expanded; margins smooth. Inflorescence open, 20-60 x 10-60 mm, with 5-30 spike-lets; pedicels glabrous or scaberulous; axils hairy. Spikelet 8-12 mm long; glumes acuminate, reddish; lemma 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairy all over; lateral awns 6-9 mm long, not reaching to reaching glume apices; central awn 10-15 mm long; palea hairy on upper third.
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