Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Caespitose perennial to 1.5 m high, with conspicuously extravaginal shoots from a short rhizome. Leaves with ligule leathery, truncate or occasionally slightly obtuse, glabrous or ciliolate, 0.4-1.5 mm long; auricles slightly thickened; blade tightly rolled or expanded, to 4 mm wide, scarcely to densely pubescent to glabrous, ribbed on upper surface. Panicle exserted, loosely contracted to spreading, sparse, to 30 cm long. Spikelets gaping widely, 15-24 mm long. Glumes unequal, narrow-truncate to slightly acute. Lemma 9.5-15 mm long, finely tuberculate, especially upwards, with sparse slightly reddish brown hairs below, reddish brown at maturity; coma and lobes absent. Callus weakly bent with slightly reddish brown hairs. Awn twice bent, 6-10 cm long. Palea 50-70% the length of the lemma.
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