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Tufted to spreading perennial to 300 mm high; stolons present or absent. Leaf blade 10-300 x 0.2-1.2 mm, glabrous, expanded or rolled; ring of bristles at sheath mouth. Inflorescence a terminal, contracted panicle, 10-60 mm long, ovate, obovate or cylindrical; a dehiscence node absent below flag-leaf. Spikelet 3.0-5.2 x 1.5-2.0 mm; florets 3-6, not distichous; glumes 3-5 mm long, usually ± as long as spikelet, acute, glabrous, scaberulous, long tubercle-based hairs present or absent; lemma 2.9-4.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, awnless, glabrous or scabrid at least at apex, sub-marginal tufts of acute, 0.2-0.5 mm long hairs present, rarely hairs on keels or scattered on back; palea obtuse, glabrous between keels, sometimes margins with long hairs; anthers 0.8-2.0 mm long.
Like T. obliterum but spikelets 3-6-flowered, florets largely included, glumes glassy hairy, lemmas stiffly ciliate, acute, awnless.
