Tufted shrub or dwarf shrub 1500-2000 mm high; rhizome long, creeping; culm erect or horizontal, branches fascicled at nodes, internodes distinct. Leaf blade to 250 x to 2.5 mm, curved, sharp. Inflorescence narrow, interrupted, spikelets crowded, pedicels erect. Spikelet 11-14 mm long; glumes unequal; lower glume lanceolate, long-acuminate; lemma smooth, articulation at about the middle of the lemma; central awn to 35 mm long, plumose for the upper 2/3, lateral awns not plumose; column short to almost absent; callus 1.5 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 3.6-5.0 mm long.
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