Perennial herb, tufted, robust, hard bases thickened, up to 2.43 m high. Leaves: sheaths reddish brown, old outer sheaths cancellate; blades 2-4 mm wide, V-shaped. Culm nodose, terete, ± 4 mm in diam. Inflorescence a compound, often pendulous, ± diffuse panicle, with several peduncles from each node. Subtending bracts sheathing culm, blade well developed at lower nodes, dark brown. Spikelets elliptic. Glumes: sterile long-awned; fertile boat-shaped, ± 6.5 mm long, keel excurrent into ± 0.8 mm long awn. Perianth of 6 short, linear, ciliate bristles. Flowering time July-Oct., Apr., May. Nutlet elliptic, including stalk ± 4 mm long, yellowish; style base small, pyramidal, surface with angles thickened, otherwise minutely reticulate.
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Panicle very compound; with often several peduncles from each leaf-sheath; spikelets smaller than those of T. rottboellii and in very much smaller clusters (only 1-4 together).
Robust, reed-like perennial to 2 m. Spikelets light brown.
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