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Robust, tufted perennial, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves reduced to 2 or 3 sheaths. Culms soft, 2-4 mm in diameter below the inflorescence. Flowers: in a panicle with clusters of spikelets on unequal branches; glumes 1.8-2.6 mm long, usually uniform above the basal smaller ones, pale whitish yellow or pale green with dark brown inverted V each side of keel; anther including crest 0.4-0.7 mm long; style 3-cleft. Fruit a 3-sided, transversely wrinkled nutlet.
Slender, tufted perennial, up to 0.9 m high. Culms firm, 1-2 mm diameter below the inflorescence. Leaves reduced to 2 or 3 sheaths. Flowers: in a simple or compound panicle with clusters of spikelets; glumes chestnut-brown or rust-coloured with reddish brown streaks forming an inverted V each side of keel; style 3-cleft. Fruit a 3-sided, transversely wrinkled nutlet.
