Description

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Growth Form: Rhizomatous perennials 60–200 cm tall.

Stems: Rhizomes well–developed, scaly.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 10–60 cm long, 0.3–1.5 cm wide. Surfaces usually glabrous. Margins entire. Sheathing, ligule a ciliate membrane, 1.8–3.2 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in panicles 15–55 cm long; spikelets 4–5.5 mm long, ovoid, acuminate, glabrous; first glume 2–4 mm long, ⅔–¾ as long as spikelet, 5–nerved, acuminate, second glume 5–7–nerved, longer than first lemma; first floret staminate, first lemma 5–7–nerved, first palea as long as first lemma; second floret 2.8–3.4 mm long, obtuse, glossy, smooth; anthers 2–3 mm long. Stamens 3. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Fruit a caryopsis

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