Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Erect perennial to 1.2 m high. Leaves with sheath sprinkled with tubercle-based hairs; ligule c. 1 mm long; blade 2--4 mm wide, sometimes sprinkled with tubercle-based hairs. Racemes 1--6, often bluish and white-villous, 4--7 cm long; lowest pairs of spikelets sterile, reduced to the glumes, subpersistent; joints and pedicels with hairs increasing upwards to 1.5 mm long. Sessile spikelets c. 4 mm long; callus obtuse, shortly and densely bearded. Lower glume shortly pilose in the lower half, long ciliate on the keels in the upper part and on a transverse subapical arch with tubercle-based cilia to 6 mm long; upper glume subequal. Lower lemma c. 1.5--2.5 mm long, sterile; upper lemma stipe-like with an awn c. 25 mm long. Pedicellate spikelets sterile, c. 3 cm long, reduced to the glumes or the lower lemma occasionally present
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