Family: Poaceae

Description: 

Tufted perennial herb; culms wiry, stiff, usually erect, up to 60 cm high. Leaves 1-5 cm x 1-3 mm, lanceolate. Racemes 1.5-3 cm long, dense, borne upon a flexuous peduncle, bearing numerous long delicate yellowish-brown awns. Spikelets elliptic-oblong, 2.5-3 mm long, the callus bearded with white hairs up to 1.5 mm long; lower glume a little shorter than the spikelet; lower floret male with 2 stamens, very rarely bisexual, lemma hyaline; upper glume and upper lemma bearing slender flexuous awns, 10-15 mm long, floret with 2 stamens.