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Tufted perennial 300-1 500 mm high; basal leaf sheath glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent. Leaf blade 150-300 x 1-5 mm, acute; ligule undivided. Inflorescence delicate; raceme hairy with conspicuous white hairs only on margins of internodes and pedicels; inter-node and pedicel clavate to almost linear. Sessile spikelet 4.0-6.5 mm long, dorsally compressed; lower glume sparsely pilose on the lower part, narrowly elliptic; upper lemma bifid for 1/4-1/3 of its length; awn 10-16 mm long; anther 1.5-2.5 mm long. Pedicellate spikelet 3.0-6.5 mm long, acuminate or with an awn point up to 2 mm long.
Caespitose perennial about 1 m. high
Black roots
