Suffruticose shrub or dwarf shrub to 600 mm high; rhizomes thick, much branched; leaves mainly cauline; culms fascicled. Leaf blade well developed, to 80 x 2-3 mm, often much shorter. Inflorescence usually elongate, exserted from uppermost leaf sheaths; spikelets in fascicles that are lax and interrupted along the inflorescence. Spikelet 15 mm long; glumes densely hairy with long white hairs; lemma smooth, articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; column well developed, twisted; only central awn plumose; callus 2 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 4.2-5.7 mm long.
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