Perennial; up to 1.4 m high; tufted or with a short rhizome. Leaf blades 40-330 x 2.0-5.5 mm; leaf sheaths glabrous. Flowers: in elongated; digitate racemes; usually falcately curved upwards; spikelets 3.3-7.8 mm long; spikelets 4-10-f lowered; lower glume 0.8-1.5 mm long; upper glume 0.8-1.5 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, with a short rhizome, 270-1400 mm high. Leaves: sheaths glabrous; blades 40-330 x 2.0-5.5 mm, expanded or folded, flaccid; ligule an unfringed membrane (0.5-)2.0-5.0 mm long. Spikelets 4-10-flowered; lower glume 0.8-1.5 mm long; upper glume 0.8-1.5 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-May.
Perennial, tufted (or with a short rhizome), up to 1.4 m high. Leaf blades 40-330 mm long, 2.0-5.5 mm wide, leaf sheaths glabrous. Spikelets 3.3-7.8 mm long. Racemes usually falcately curved upwards; spikelets 4-10-flowered; lower glume 0.8-1.5 mm long; upper glume 0.8-1.5 mm long.
A grass. It keeps growing from year to year and forms tufts. It grows 1.4 m tall.