Plant Type
Caespitose perennial arising from short underground rhizomes, the basal leaf-sheaths glabrous or very rarely obscurely puberulous; flowering culms wiry, typically 30–60 cm. high (1 m. or more in exceptionally robust plants), standing over a dense leafy tussock 10–20 cm. high.
Flower
Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy. Anthers 3. Stigmas 2.
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Hyparrhenia
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