Plants forming hummocks 0.3–0.6 m high, 0.6–1.3 m wide, stoloniferous. Flowering culms 0.6–1.6 m high. Leaves: sheath with tangled woolly hairs at least on base and margins, reddish brown; orifice shortly woolly or scaberulous; blade straight, 5–21 (–35) cm long, 0.7–1.2 mm wide, closely nerved on lower surface, sometimes woolly on lower lamina and pseudopetiole. Panicles ±dense, 9–26 cm long, 2–6 cm wide; axis angular; branches to 10 cm long. Spikelets in pairs, ovate or oblong or sometimes lanceolate, 6–10 (–13) mm long, (2–) 4–6 mm wide, closely 7–15-flowered, often blunt at apex; pedicels unequal, 1–13 mm long; rachilla internodes c. 0.5 mm long. Glumes ovate or oblong, 3.5–6 mm long, acuminate, rigid at tip, scarious to cartilaginous, 3 (–5)-nerved, glabrous, scaberulous or smooth except on midnerve. Callus obtuse. Basal lemma 4–5 (–7) mm long, scarious, not abruptly bitextured, cartilaginous or indurated, hirsute near midnerve and margins in lower 1/2–2/3; lobes at least 1/3 of lemma length; lateral lobes often divergent or recurved with age. Palea nearly as long as lemma, scarious, not abruptly bitextured; body glabrous; keels with protruding undulate wings. Anthers 1.7–2 mm long.
Found on crests and slopes of hills, ridges and outcrops; inshallow, often stony soils in association with sandstone, limestone, laterite,shale and volcanic rocks.
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