Tufted erect, robust perennial to 750 mm high; rhizomes short, knotty; culms 1.2-5.0 mm wide; leaves erect, rigid. Leaf blade to 500 mm long, setaceous, folded. Inflorescence open, divaricate, branches and pedicels flexuous, with spikelets at end of the branches. Spikelet 16-19 mm long; glumes glabrous; lemma articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; column long-hairy; all three awns plumose to branching point of awns, excurrent into a naked apex; callus 2 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 5-6 mm long.
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