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30 cm high; Graminoid; Notes: Erect, annual grass, up to 30 cm high when in flower. Culm erect to somewhat geniculate, much branched, slender, terete, yellow-green with long, white, sericeous indumentum especially conspicuous at dark-banded nodes. Leaf blade lanceolate, tapering to narrow apex over a length of 50 - 100 mm, up to 10 mm wide, thin and softly textured, expanded, ascending to somewhat recurved, bright green, covered on both surfaces by fine, white, short, downy indumentum, margins white with long straight, white hairs, base rounded. Ligule an inconspicuous brown, membranous ridge with short, white, straight hairs. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate from collar region, overlapping, 25 - 50 mm long, paler green with relatively dense long, white, sericeous indumentum. Inflorescence a panicle of spaced racemes, up to 200 x 80 mm, elliptic in outline, enclosed initially in upper leaf sheath. Racemes 50 mm long, alternately arranged on main axis at intervals of 3 - 30 mm; secondary axis slender, sinuate with dense, short, white, velutinous indumentum. Spikelets paired, minutely ovoid, 2 x 1.5 mm, apex acute. Glumes tightly clasped, membranous, pale green to purple tinted. Stigma branches apically exerted, deep purple. |