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Panicle 7-20 x 3-10 cm., broadly elliptic to oblong in outline, very loose and open, effuse, very lax, erect or nodding, with the rhachis very slender and curved; branches very delicate, filiform, solitary or paired, usually bare of spikelets in the lower half, spreading or deflexed, more rarely ascending.
Leaf-laminae 3-18 x 0·1-0·4 cm., very narrowly linear, tapering to a fine soft point, expanded or convolute (often only in the upper 1/2), rather flaccid, scaberulous on the upper, usually smooth on the lower surface, glabrous.
Culms 15-70 cm. tall, 2-4-noded, erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes straggling, very slender, weak, simple or branched below, terete to slightly compressed, smooth, glabrous.
Inferior glume 1·75-4 mm. long, 1-(sometimes 3-) nerved, ovate-oblong to narrowly elliptic with the apex acute or subacute; the superior 2-4·5 mm. long, 3-nerved, similar in shape.
Lemma 3·2-4·75 mm. long, 5-nerved, ovate to ovate-elliptic, with the apex acute, dorsally glabrous or pubescent (especially towards the base).
Spikelets 3-6 mm. long, 2-5-flowered, ovate to ovate-oblong in outline, pale green or more often tinged with purple.
Leaf-sheaths coarsely striate, rather loose, sometimes papery, keeled towards the mouth, smooth, glabrous.
Tufted perennial about 60 cm. high
A loosely caespitose perennial.
Caryopsis c. 2 mm. long.
Anthers 0·7-1 mm. long.
Ligule 0·5-6 mm. long.
