| Description : |
Herbs, with simple or compound terminal umbels. Stem densely tufted, to 45 cm, slender, 1 mm wide, basally scabrid, incrassate. Leaves flat, rarely folded, 40 x 0.2 cm, margins inrolled, scabrid, apex obtuse-acute; ligule shortly hairy; sheaths purple-brown, hairy. Inflorescence simple or subcompound, 2-4 cm; involucral bracts 3-5, lowest overtopping, 2-6 cm; primary ray(s) 1 or 2, slender, to 2.5 cm. Spikelet solitary, terete or ovoid, to 1 cm, obtuse; rachilla obscurely winged; glumes broadly ovate-suborbicular, 1-2.5 mm, fuscous, apically tomentose, mucronulate; keel 1-3-nerved. Stamens 3, Style 2-fid, flat, shortly ciliate. Nut obovoid, biconvex, to 1.5 mm, stramineous, smooth, obscurely striolate, umbonulate, stipitate |