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Sessile spikelet 4.5–6.8 mm long, 1/3(1/2) as long again as the pedicel, conical, laterally compressed, rounded at the base; inferior glume convex, the margins strongly inrolled; superior lemma shortly bifid at the apex (and awn stout and straight) or bifid almost to the base (and awn long and geniculate); awn up to10 mm long; anthers 1.5–3.3 mm long.
Racemes 5.5–11.5 cm long, stout, cylindrical, solitary on the culms, long exserted from the linear spatheole, glabrous; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels canaliculate, very broad at the base (1.7 mm).
Leaves mostly basal; sheaths shorter than the internodes, covered with a dense indumentum of long curly white hairs at the base; laminas 2–10 cm × 1.8–3.3 mm, often inrolled and tapering to a fine point at the apex.
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 100 cm high, unbranched, slender, erect; internodes terete.
Pedicelled spikelet male, similar to the sessile spikelet but awnless.
