Plants caespitose; innovation buds intravaginal. Culms 4–25 cm high. Leaves glabrous or villous; blade infrequently abscising, expanded or rolled. Inflorescences linear or rarely triangular, often drooping, 0.5–3.5 cm long; branches villous. Spikelets 5.5–7.5 mm long, with 4–6 florets. Glumes equalling florets; lower glume 5.5–7.5 mm long. Lemma: body 1.6–2.6 mm long, shiny, usually glabrous, sometimes with villous tufts; lobes shorter than body, partially fused to awn, with setae 0.1–0.8 mm long; awn 2.1–4.9 mm long; awn column with 1 or 2 twists; indumentum in both rows of only marginal tufts, with lower row not reaching upper row. Palea 2–3.2 mm long, broad, 1–3 times as long as wide. Caryopsis 1.1–1.3 mm long.
Found on stream bankflats, detritus in open woodland, streambanks, roadsides and stony habitats,open windswept habitats.
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