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Racemes 4–8 cm long, silvery or yellowish with usually dense long hairs 4–5.5 mm long on the internodes, pedicels and inferior glumes, exserted from the linear spatheole, occasionally long-exserted; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels flattened, narrow at the base (0.3 mm).
Perennial, loosely tufted, up to 1 m high. Leaf blades up to 200 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, glabrous. Spikelets (sessile) 7-8 mm long (dorsally compressed; pedicellate shorter). Inflorescence lacking barren branches; racemes with conspicuous white hairs; female-fertile lemma only shortly bifid.
Sessile spikelet 7–9 mm long, 1/3–1/2 as long again as the pedicel, narrowly ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, pointed at the base; inferior glume slightly convex; superior lemma linear, bifid in the upper 1/2–2/3; awn dorsal, 13–22 mm long; anthers 2.5–4 mm long.
Leaf sheaths shorter than the internodes, occasionally pubescent towards the top; laminas 11–23 cm × 2.5–4 mm, tapering to a fine point.
Loosely caespitose, wiry, rhizomatous perennial, tinged with reddish-orange; culms up to 120 cm high, branched; internodes terete.
Pedicelled spikelet male or sterile, 5–7.4 mm long, similar to the sessile spikelet and with an awn 1–3.5 mm long.
