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Tufted perennial, 220-630 mm high; culms slender; leaves mostly basal. Leaf blade 30-200 x 3-7 mm; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence 70-320 mm long, broadly pyramidal; composed of a number of racemes scattered along a central axis; racemes usually longer than 1/2 central axis, stiff, straight, often spreading horizontally; spikelets ± their length apart. Spikelets 5-14 mm long, often purplish, laterally compressed, wedge-shaped; glumes ± equal to unequal, slightly shorter to as long as spikelet, 5-14 mm long (including awn), 1-nerved, awn up to 2 mm long. Florets 3-many, bisexual; lemma 3.5-8.5 mm long, rounded on back, 3-nerved, hairy, conspicuously ciliate along lateral nerves, 2-lobed, lobes awnless; awned from sinus; central awn fine, bristle-like, shorter than body of lemma, straight; anther 0.7-0.8 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Caryopsis 1.5-2.5 mm long, oblong.
Tufted perennial 220-630 mm high; culms slender, erect or ascending; leaves mostly basal. Leaf blade 30-200 x 3-7 mm. Inflorescence 70-320 mm long, broadly pyramidal; racemes usually longer than 1/2 the central axis, stiff, straight, often spreading horizontally; spikelets ± their length apart. Spikelet 5-14 mm long, often purplish; glumes 5-14 mm long (including awn), awn up to 2 mm long; lemma 3.5-8.5 mm long; anther 0.7-0.8 mm long; caryopsis 1.5-2.5 mm long, oblong.
Spikelets 4.5–8.5 mm long, 3–7-flowered, often purplish; glumes caudate or subulate and tapering into an awn up to 2 mm long, exceeding the florets or rarely fractionally shorter, the inferior linear-lanceolate, the superior linear-oblong; lemmas 3.5–4.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, appressed-pilose on the back; palea capitate-pilose.
Perennial, tufted (culms slender; erect or ascending), up to 0.63 m high. Leaf blades 30-200 mm long, 3-7 mm wide. Spikelets 5-14 mm long. Inflorescence branches spreading horizontally; spikelets 4-9-flowered; glumes 5.0-3.5 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.63 m high; tufted. Culms slender; erect or ascending. Leaf blades 30-200 x 3-7 mm. Flowers: panicle open; branches spreading horizontally; spikelets 5-14 mm long; spikelets 4-9-flowered; glumes 5.0-13.5 mm long.
Inflorescence 8.5–40 cm long, ovate to broadly pyramidal, open; racemes 8–30, 4–20 cm long, stiff and straight, divaricate and often horizontally spreading from the axis, the spikelets distant by ± their own length.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 60(85) cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas (3)5–12(17) cm × (1)2–6 mm, linear, flat or convolute, acute at the apex and sometimes pungent.
