Description:
Spikelet Colour: Straw coloured, Yellow
Spikelet Length: 2 - 4mm, 4 - 7mmSpikelet sculpture: Spikelet with awn
Spikelet shape: SubulateSpikelets subtended by an involucre. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1–4 in the cluster. Involucre composed of bristles; connate into a disc below (0.5–1mm diam); with 0.2–0.3(–0.5) mm connate; 6–12 mm long; base obconical. Involucral bristles deciduous with the fertile spikelets; numerous; with an outer whorl of thinner bristles; inner bristles longer than outer; with one conspicuously longer bristle; 8–16 mm long; flattened (at least base of longest bristle); without grooves, or grooved on the face; flexible (often wavy); antrorsely scaberulous; ciliate.
Fertile spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; acute; 2–5.5 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
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