Zonotriche decora (Stapf) J.B.Phipps

Tufted perennial; culms 60–120 cm. high.. Leaf-blades 15–25 cm. long, 5–10 mm. wide.. Panicle narrowly elliptic, 12–20 cm. long, the triads deciduous.. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate, 15–28 mm. long, brown, the lower glume hirsute with white hairs from dark brown tubercles; lower glume as long as the spikelet, long attenuate to a filiform tip; upper glume 4/5 as long as the spikelet; upper lemma 8–10 mm. long, bearing a row of 6–8 tufts of hair across the back, otherwise glabrous, acutely bilobed, the lobes often attenuate into setae 1–2 mm. long; central awn 15–25 mm. long; callus broadly oblong or broader than long; palea-keels narrowly winged.. Caryopsis glabrous.. Fig. 116.