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Perennial. Rhizomes 3-4 mm thick, woody, red; scales stramineous-reddish. Culms 0.30-1 m tall, villous to glabrescent, 5-7 mm distant. Leaves 2-3 mm broad, glabrous to villous; sheath with mouth produced into a triangular or rounded, villous or glabrescent tongue 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence branched or unbranched, (60)-150-250 mm long, drooping. Glomerules (1)-3-8 per branch, of 1-2-(6) sessile spikelets. Bracts shortly awned, shorter than the glomerules. Spikelets 5-7-(8) mm long. Glumes 3-5 mm long, glabrous or minutely hispidulous distally, shortly awned, pale stramineous with faint reddish streaks. Achene ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5-1.8 x 1-1.2 mm, glabrous, smooth, grey.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Inflorescence rhachis drooping, 60-250 mm long. Spikelets 5-7(-8) mm long. Glumes tawny, glabrous or glabrescent, pale stramineous with faint reddish streaks.
