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Tufted perennial 300-1 000 mm high. Leaf blade 60-150(-250) x 1.5-6.0 mm, expanded. Inflorescence 70-300 mm long, open or contracted, often interrupted. Spikelet 10-12 mm long (excluding awns), usually closely flowered; glumes broadly lanceolate, acuminate; lower glume 1-nerved, glabrous, scaberulous along the nerve; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; rachilla internode 2 mm long, with hairs to 2 mm long; lemma oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, smooth or papillate, very often variegated with purple, lobes 3-5 mm long (including awn) from above the central awn insertion; lowest lemma longer than 7 mm from the base to where lobes start; anther 0.5-2.7 mm long.
Perennial, tufted, up to 1 m high. Leaf blades 60-150 (-250) mm long, 1.5-6.0 mm wide. Leaf blades flat. Spikelets 10-12 mm long. Panicle 70-300 mm long, open or contracted, often interrupted; glumes broadly lanceolate, upper glume two-thirds the spikelet length; rhachilla internodes 2 mm long, with hairs to 2 mm long; lemma glabrous, smooth or papillate, very often variegated with purple, lobes, above insertion of awn, 3-5 mm long.
Perennial; up to 1 m high; tufted. Leaf blades 60-150 x 1.5-6.0 mm; flat. Flowers: panicle open or contracted; often interrupted; 70-300 mm long; spikelets 10-12 mm long; closely flowered; glumes narrowly ovate; upper glume 2/3 spikelet length; rachilla internodes 2 mm long; not showing; with hairs up to 2 mm long; lemmas glabrous; smooth or papillate; very often variegated with purple; lobes above insertion of awn; 3-5 mm long.
Perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear. Spikelets green, 10-12 mm long, in a panicle 7-30 cm long, upper glume two-thirds as long as spikelet, lemmas smooth or papillate, often purple.
