Description
A tall grass, typically over a meter in height, with loosely contracted flower sprays.
The glumes are longer than the lemma body, measuring 18-25mm, and the lemmas are awned with twice-bent awns.
The leaves are rolled into a cylinder, and the ligules are membranous, truncate, fringed, and 0.5-2mm long.
The awns have hairs about 1mm long, uniformly spread without spiraling, unlike the common Soft Spear-grass.
The nodes along the stalk have dense, short, soft hairs.
The lemmas, 8-12mm long (excluding the awn), are dark brown to black when mature, with white to golden hairs. The awns measure 6.5-10cm long, with the first bend occurring 3-4cm from the base.
Edibles: Meristem/buds – eaten raw
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