Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Slender perennial to 1.2 m high; culms terete or compressed, branched and usually fastigiate, smooth or scaberulous. Leaves with ligule < 0.5 mm long; blade soon conduplicate, finely pointed, 1-2 mm wide, long-scabrous on upper surface. Panicle contracted, loose to open, usually 12-21 cm long, branches few, distant, soon spreading or drooping. Glumes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-10 mm long, subequal or upper longer, upper usually obtuse and notched, mucronate. Lemma linear to elliptic, beaked, usually 7-11 mm long; awns filiform, stiff, erect or divergent, to 20 mm long.
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