Erect densely tufted, robust perennial to 900 mm high, rhizomes short, knotty; leaves almost overtopping the inflorescence; culms 1.2-5.0 mm wide. Leaf blade to 500 mm long, setaceous, flaccid, often curling. Inflorescence contracted, dense. Spikelet 16-18 mm long; glumes glabrous, pallid, slightly darker at base; lemma articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; column with long hairs below branching point of awns; all three awns plumose to branching point, excurrent into a long naked apex; callus 2.0-2.5 mm long, apex distinctly naked; anther 3.5-4.9 mm long.
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