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Tufted perennial, 150-550 mm high; old leaf sheaths fibrous with woolly hairs between fibres. Leaf blade 30-150 x 1-2 mm; ligule a fringed membrane or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, dichotomously branched, without long hairs in axils; branches not whorled. Spikelet 1.4-2.1 mm long, laterally compressed, awnless, glabrous, disarticulating above glumes; glumes 1-nerved. Floret 1; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, often shining, 1-3-nerved. Flowering time Oct.-Mar.
Tufted perennial 150-550 mm high; old leaf sheaths fibrous with a mass of woolly hairs between fibres. Leaf blade 30-150 x 1-2 mm. Inflorescence open, dichotomously or not dichotomously branched; axils without long hairs on a pulvinus. Spikelet 1.4-2.1 mm long; glumes unequal; lower glume 1/3-2/3 as long as spikelet, apex acute to acuminate or obtuse-denticulate; upper glume 1/2-2/3 as long as spikelet, apex acute; lemma as long as spikelet, narrowly ovate, acute; anther 1.0-1.2 mm long.
Spikelets (1.2)1.4–2.1 mm long, greyish-green or sometimes dark greenish-purple or olive; inferior glume 1/3–2/3 the length of the spikelet, narrowly ovate to oblong, nerveless, glabrous or minutely hispidulous, acute to acuminate or obtuse-denticulate at the apex; superior glume 1/2–2/3(4/5) the length of the spikelet, narrowly ovate, 1-nerved, glabrous or minutely hispidulous, acute at the apex; lemma as long as the spikelet, narrowly ovate, acute; anthers 3, 0.8–1.2 mm long.
Densely caespitose perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 40(55) cm tall, erect, unbranched; basal leaf sheaths chartaceous, tomentose on the margins with curly yellow or brown hairs, terete, decaying with age into a compact mass of fine fibres, the woolly hairs retained within; leaf laminas 3–15 cm long, involute-filiform, smooth or scaberulous on the surface, scabrid on the margins.
Perennial, tufted, up to 0.55 m high. Leaf blades 30-150 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, old leaf sheaths fibrous with a mass of woolly hairs between fibres. Spikelets 1.4-2.1 mm long. Panicle dichotomously branched, without long hairs in axils.
Panicle 3–15 cm long, ovate and diffuse or rarely linear and somewhat condensed; primary branches not in whorls, capillary, tinged with red, smooth or scaberulous, eglandular, the spikelets evenly distributed.
Grain 0.5–0.7 mm long, obovate, truncate.
