Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Tufted perennial to 1.2 m high; culms erect. Leaves with sheath glabrous or hairy; ligule obtuse or lacerated, 0.5-1.5 mm long; blade 1-6 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent. Panicle dense, sometimes looser at the base, 5-22 cm long. Glumes long-acuminate, unequal, lower 2.5-8 mm long, upper 3-9 mm long. Lemma 2.5-4 mm long, acuminate; awn arising 0.5-1 mm from apex, curved, twisted and bent to almost straight, 6-33 mm long. Palea shorter than the lemma. Stamen 1.
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