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Tufted perennial, 320-600 mm high; rhizome slender and creeping, or sometimes stoloniferous; with few basal leaves; culms wiry. Leaf blade 40-150 mm long; ligule a fringed membrane or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, dichotomously branched with long stiff hairs in axils; branches not whorled. Spikelets 1.5-3.0 mm long, laterally compressed, awnless, glabrous, disarticulating above glumes; rachilla extending into a rudimentary floret between upper glume and palea; glumes 1-nerved. Floret 1; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, often shining, 1-3-nerved. Flowering time Nov.-Jan.
Spikelets (1.1)1.3–3.1(4) mm long, dark green; glumes subequal, 1/2–4/5 the length of the spikelet, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, the inferior 0-to 1-nerved, the superior 1-nerved, glabrous, acute or acuminate at the apex; lemma as long as the spikelet, distinctly 3-nerved, ovate, obtuse to subacute at the apex; palea similar to the lemma but 2-nerved; rhachilla produced, 1/4 as long to as long as the lemma, rarely absent, glabrous, sunk between the close-set keels of the palea; anthers 3, 0.7–1.2(1.9) mm long.
Tufted perennial 320-600 mm high; rhizome slender, creeping; sometimes stoloniferous; culms wiry; leaves few, basal. Leaf blade 40-150 mm long; filiform. Inflorescence dichotomously branched; branchlets and pedicels very slender and hair-like; axils with many long stiff hairs on a pulvinus. Spikelet 1.5-3.0 mm long; glumes ± 1/2-4/5 as long as spikelet; rachilla extension present, rarely absent; lemma as long as spikelet, apex obtuse to subacute, 3-nerved; anther 0.9-1.2 mm long.
Panicle 5–18 cm long, broadly ovate, very diffuse; primary branches not in whorls, usually solitary or paired, sometimes the lowermost clustered but not truly whorled, subdichotomously branched, the branchlets and pedicels capillary, smooth or scaberulous, eglandular, widely diverging, with a distinct pulvinus in the axils, this bearded with long white hairs c. 4 mm long, the spikelets evenly distributed.
Densely caespitose perennial arising from a short scaly rhizome; culms up to 60(80) cm tall, erect, unbranched; basal leaf sheaths chartaceous, glabrous, terete, persistent or eventually disintegrating into a cushion of fibres; leaf laminas 3–20 cm long, involute-filiform, glabrous or thinly pilose on the surface, cartilaginous on the margins.
Perennial, rhizomatous (rhizome slender and creeping) or stoloniferous (sometimes) or tufted, up to 0.6 m high. Leaf blades 40-150 mm long. Culms wiry; basal leaves few. Spikelets 1.5-3.0 mm long. Panicle dichotomously branched with long stiff hairs in axils; rhachilla extending into a rudimentary floret between upper glume and palea.
Grain 0.8–1 mm long, oblong to cylindrical, with rounded top and oblique base, ± square in section.
Densely tufted perennial 30–46 cm. high, with coarsely fibrous base.
