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Mat forming or tufted perennial 100-700 mm high; leaf sheaths split with age, forming a dense, fibrous base. Leaf blade 100-400 x to 1.2 mm. Inflorescence 15-80(100) mm long, usually dense and contracted. Spikelet (4.5)5.0-7.5 mm long; glumes 1-3-nerved, unequal, acute to acuminate, sometimes very shortly awned; lemma 3-5(-7)-nerved, nerves prominent, margins hairy basally, apex trilobed, awn 1.5-3.0 mm long; anthers 1.5-2.0 mm long.
Perennial, mat-forming to tufted, up to 0.7 m high. Leaf blades 100-400 mm long, up to 1.2 mm wide. Sheaths and leaves splitting with age, forming a dense, fibrous base. Spikelets 5-7 mm long, 2-5-flowered, uppermost floret sterile or reduced; glumes 1-3-nerved, unequal, 3 central nerves produced into a short awn; lemmas basally pubescent with 3-lobed apex, 3-5(-7)-nerved, with middle lobe extending into a short awn.
Spikelets 4.5–7.5 mm long; glumes unequal, the inferior 3.1–3.4 mm long, lanceolate, 1(3)-nerved, the superior 3.4–3.8 mm long, broadly lanceolate, 1–3(5)-nerved; lemmas 3.2–3.3 mm long (excluding awn), broadly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic; awn 1.5–2.5 mm long.
Densely caespitose sclerophyllous perennial up to 75 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; leaf laminas 4–25 cm long, convolute, somewhat rigid.
Panicle 3–10 cm long, narrowly elliptic, usually contracted and dense.
