Urelytrum digitatum K.Schum.

Tufted perennial; culms 1–2 m. high.. Leaf-blades fairly broad, herbaceous, 10–40 cm. long, 4–10 mm. wide; ligule usually short, 1–3(–5) mm. long, truncate; sheaths commonly pubescent above.. Inflorescence of (1–)3–4(–10) racemes, each 15–30 cm. long, subdigitate or borne upon a central axis 2–7(–12) cm. long; internodes and pedicels glabrous.. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong; lower glume 6–10 mm. long, glabrous except for the spinulose to ciliolate keels, not muricate, acute to bidenticulate (very rarely biaristulate).. Pedicelled spikelet 2–7 mm. long, its awn 2–3.5(–5) cm. long.. Fig. 194.