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Densely tufted perennial 700-1200 mm high. Leaf blade 350 x 5 mm. Inflorescence 2-4 digitate racemes, racemes 130-200 mm long, obviously secund; spikelets solitary at point of attachment to rachis. Spikelet 3.5-5.0 mm long, small in comparison to awns; fertile lemma awn 10-25 mm, sterile lemma awn 25-45 mm long, awns flexuous, curving gracefully, becoming entangled with awns of other spikelets; anther 0.7-1.0 mm long.
Spikelets 3.5–6 mm long (excluding the awns), 2-flowered; glumes narrowly lanceolate in profile, very acute to shortly awned, the inferior a little longer than the superior; fertile lemma c. 3.8 mm long, with an awn up to 37.5 mm long; second floret 0.5–1 mm long, with an awn up to 20 mm long; anthers 0.1–0.15 mm long.
Perennial, densely tufted, up to 1.2 m high. Leaf blades up to 350 mm long, 5 mm wide. Spikelets 3.5-5.0 mm long, small in comparison to awns, awns of female-fertile and sterile lemmas 10-25 mm and 25-45 mm long respectively, curving gracefully around spike.
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 120 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; basal leaf sheaths persistent, densely packed; leaf laminas 7.5–27 cm × 2–5 mm, flat or rarely involute.
Racemes (1)2–4, 13–22 cm long, straight or slightly flexuous.
