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Perennial; shrub or dwarf shrub; up to 0.6 m high; long rhizomatous; tufted; culms and leaves with dense appressed hairs in grooves; hairs becoming more dense; longer and more obvious below nodes. Culms erect. Leaf blades up to 100 mm long; usually less; setaceous; rolled. Flowers: inflorescence contracted; branches densely hairy; hairs longer and thicker on swollen part just below spikelet; spikelets up to 14 mm long; including awns; glumes firm; acute; upper glume 7-9 mm long; lemma articulation in ± middle of lemma; column short and stout; all 3 awns plumose down to branching point and just below on column; callus 1.5-2.0 mm long; narrow; very short pungent apex.
Tufted, erect shrub or dwarf shrub to 600 mm high; rhizomes long; culms and leaves grooved with dense adpressed hairs, hairs becoming denser, longer and more obvious below nodes. Leaf blade to 100 mm long, usually less, setaceous, rolled. Inflorescence narrow, branches densely hairy, hairs longer and thicker on swollen part just below spikelet. Spikelet to 14 mm long (including awns); glumes firm, acute; upper glume 7-9 mm long; lemma articulation about middle of lemma; column short, stout; all three awns plumose down to branching point and just below on column; callus 1.5-2.0 mm long, narrow, apex very short, pungent; anther 3.3-3.5 mm long.
