Bushy, tufted, perennial 250-810 mm high; rhizomatous; culm profusely branching from a short distance above the base, yellow, woody, internodes glabrous, smooth. Leaf blade 60-120 x 1 mm, glabrous; sheath glabrous; ligule a very short fringe of hairs. Inflorescence 25-90(-190) mm long, mostly dense, contracted. Spikelet 4-15 mm long (excluding awns); 4-19-flowered; glumes 2.2-3.5 mm long (including awns), awns 0.3-0.5 mm long; lemma body 3.0-3.2 mm long, central awn 3.0-3.5 mm long, about as long as to longer than lemma; anthers 1.2-1.8 mm long.
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