Plants forming loose hummocks 0.3.1.3 m high, sometimes in rings to 6 m wide, stoloniferous, highly resinous on foliage, aromatic. Culms in fastigiate clusters; flowering culms 1.15.1.6 m high. Leaves: sheath glabrous; orifice with hairs to 4 mm long, beard usually resin-matted; blade straight, folded, 9.27 cm long, 0.8.1.2 mm wide, closely nerved near midline, usually prickly on margins. Panicles contracted, densely or sparsely branched, 17.40 cm long, 1.2.5 (.4) cm wide; axis angular or compressed; branches to 11 cm long. Spikelets narrow-cuneate, terete or laterally compressed, 10.12 mm long excluding awns, closely or finally loosely 6.10-flowered; pedicel 5.10 mm long; rachilla internodes 1.3.1.8 mm long. Glumes ±equal or upper glume slightly shorter, lanceolate, 8.17 mm long including awns, entire or minutely toothed, acuminate or aristulate, scarious with membranous margins, 1 (sub 3.7)-nerved, glabrous. Callus about 0.5 mm long, oblique, bearded except at tip. Basal lemma 3.4 mm long (body and callus); body indurated, with spreading hairs all over or along midrib and margins, yellowish; margins membranous on upper body and lateral lobes; lobes broad near base, cartilaginous; midlobe (including awn) 7.16 mm long; lateral lobes (with awns) 5.10 mm long; awns often recurved. Palea 4.5.5 mm long, indurated in lower 2/3.3/4, hyaline above; apex abruptly narrowed, blunt, entire or emarginate, hyaline, ciliolate; keels winged; flaps mostly hyaline, glabrous. Anthers 2.2.6 mm long.
Found in or nearsalt-pans, salt-lakes, swales, soaks and depressions, in deep red soils associatedwith laterite and limestone.
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