Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Shrubby perennial to c. 2 m high. Leaves with sheath sparingly pilose, pubescent at the collar; blade soon deflexed, 1.5-4 mm wide, loosely pilose on the upper surface. Panicle 2-14 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, the main axis strongly flattened, slightly striate, glabrous and smooth or minutely rough, primary branches 1-8-spiculate, the lowest to 3.5 cm long, mostly appressed. Spikelets 4.3-5 mm long, oblique on their pedicels. Lower glume 1-2.5 mm long, 3-5-nerved, rounded and minutely ciliolate at the apex, otherwise glabrous or sparsely hispid. Upper glume subequal to the spikelet, 9-11-nerved. Lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-9-nerved. Fertile floret not or scarcely mucronulate, c. 80% as long as the spikelet, pallid when young, then tawny, finally brown, the lemma subcircular.
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