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Robust perennial, densely tufted (erect), up to 0.75 m high. Leaf blades up to 300 mm long, setaceous, rolled. Culms 1.2-5.0 mm wide. Spikelets to 14 mm long (excluding awns). Inflorescence extending well above leaves, usually narrow, never effuse, with few spikelets; glumes pallid, long hairy; lemma articulation at apex of lemma or absent; column stout, with long hairs for some distance below branching point; all 3 awns plumose to branching point of awns, excurrent into a naked apex; callus 1.0-1.5 mm long, naked, with a pungent tip.
Densely tufted erect, robust perennial to 750 mm high; inflorescence extending well above leaves; culm 1.2-5.0 mm wide. Leaf blade to 300 mm long, setaceous, rolled. Inflorescence usually narrow, never effuse, spikelets few. Spikelet to 14 mm long; glumes pallid, long hairy; lemma articulation at apex of lemma or absent; column stout, with long hairs for some distance below branching point; all three awns plumose to branching point of awns, excurrent into a naked apex; callus 1.0-1.5 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 4-6 mm long.
