Shrub or dwarf shrub 700-1000 mm high; rhizome long, branched; plant robust in upper parts; leaves mainly cauline, rigid, usually held at 90 degree angles from the culm; culms stout, much branched, fascicled in lower parts, nodes glabrous. Leaf blade relatively short to 100 x to 2 mm, flat or folded, distinctly pungent. Inflorescence open, axils of branches glabrous. Spikelet 12-14 mm long; glumes 8-14 mm long, glabrous; lemma articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; column well developed, glabrous or occasionally hairy; all three awns or only central awn plumose; callus 2.0-2.5 mm long, apex narrow, naked, pungent; anther 4.5-5.0 mm long.
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