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Tufted, perennial to 400 mm high; stoloniferous. Leaf blade to 250 x to 2 mm, flat or folded, blade and sheath usually glabrous, if pubescent then never hispid. Inflorescence 15-50 mm long. Spikelet 5-6 x ± 1.5 mm, 3-6-flowered; glumes 3.5-6.0 mm long; lemma 2.5-3.5 mm long (including lobes), densely hairy with long hairs all over, except lobes glabrous, margins fringed; deeply lobed, lobes narrow, acute to acuminate, awned; central awn 4.0-5.5 mm long, column (twisted) and bristle present; palea 2.2-2.5 mm long, glabrous or rarely pubescent between keels; callus semi-circular, short, 0.2 mm long; anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.4 m high; stoloniferous; tufted. Leaf blades up to 250 x 2 mm; flat or folded; usually glabrous; if pubescent; then never hispid; leaf sheaths usually glabrous. Flowers: panicle contracted; narrowly ovate or oblong; 15-50 mm long; spikelets ± 5-6 x 1.5 mm; spikelets 3-6-flowered; glumes 3.5-6.0 mm long; lemmas 2.5-3.5 mm long; including lemma lobes; which extend into short; soft bristles; back of lemmas with a row of hairs across middle below awn base; densely pubescent below this; margins not obviously fringed; central awn 4.0-5.5 mm long; palea 2.2-2.5 mm long; pubescent between keels.
Perennial 120-250 mm high; stolons present. Leaf blade 30-80 x to 1.5 mm, involute. Inflorescence 15-80 mm long. Spikelet 5-7 x to 2 mm, ovate; 5-7-flowered; lemma glabrous except lower 1/3 of margin fringed with hairs, lobes acute, narrow; central awn 1.0-1.5 mm long, straight, twisted column absent, robust; palea glabrous between keels; anther 0.6-0.8 mm long.
Perennial to 40 cm. Spikelets 4-6 flowered, in a compact panicle, but lemmas fringed in lower third and mucro 1.0-1.5 mm.
