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Tufted perennial up to 900 mm high; grows in a tangled mass. Leaf blade to 500 x 4 mm, spreading and reflexed, light green. Inflorescence open, up to 140 mm long; pedicels minutely scabrid; spikelets with a whorl of hairs at the base. Spikelet 4-7 mm long; glumes and lower lemma bright brown, apices transparent; upper lemma with two conspicuous lateral tufts of white hairs; lobe awns 2-3 mm long; central awn slender, 4-7 mm long, lower part bent and twisted, upper hair-like; anthers 0.6-1.4 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 0.9 m high, growing in a tangled mass. Leaves spreading and reflexed, leaf blades up to 500 mm long (light green); 4 mm wide. Spikelets 4-7 mm long. Panicle open, up to 140 mm long; spikelets with a whorl of hairs at base; glumes and lower lemma bright brown and tips transparent; female-fertile lemma with 2 conspicuous tufts of white hairs, side awns 2-3 mm long, central awns slender, 4-7 mm long.
Superior lemma glabrous with conspicuous lateral tufts 2–3 mm. long; central awn 4–6 mm. long, the laterals 1.5–4 mm.
Panicle 3–15 cm. long, narrowly ovate; pedicel hairs usually conspicuous, 0.5–2 mm. long.
Spikelets 4–5 mm. long, glabrous or with a few hairs at the apex of the inferior glume.
Culms 30–100 cm. long, wiry, trailing, the internodes longer than the leaf-sheaths.
Leaf laminae 1–3 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, linear, ± reflexed.
Perennial.
