Rytidosperma longifolium

Tufted perennial. Culms to 1 m high, mostly 4–7-noded, occasionally producing leafy tufts from nodes. Leaves glabrous; blade flat or channelled near base, typically finely inrolled and flexuose above, to 40 cm long and 2 mm wide. Panicle linear to narrow-lanceolate in outline, 5–15 cm long, the base often remaining enclosed by upper sheath. Spikelets rarely purplish, mostly 4–6-flowered; glumes subequal, narrow, acuminate, 8–13 mm long; lemma 2–3 mm long, more or less evenly covered by hairs 0.5–1.2 mm long, with a conspicuously longer upper series c. 3 mm long; lateral lobes erect, 5–7 mm long, exceeding the upper series of hairs by 2–4 mm, tapered gradually into the 2–3 mm long setiform tips; central awn very fine, pale and weakly twisted at base, exceeding lateral lobes by 2–6 mm; palea lanceolate, exceeding sinus by 1–2 mm. Flowers Sep.–Jan