Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Tufted perennial with very short rhizome. Culms rigid, erect, flat to slightly convex on one face or concavo-convex, glabrous, smooth or rarely scabrous, 30-100 cm high, (2-)3-8 mm wide; margins scabrous or rarely smooth. Leaves similar in form to culms but shorter, 3-8 mm wide; sheath reddish or dark grey-brown at base, straw-coloured at apex, rarely all straw-coloured, not viscid, +/- shining. Inflorescence +/- linear in outline, erect to somewhat spreading, 4-20(-38) cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam.; involucral bract shorter than inflorescence. Spikelets +/- few, (4-)5-8.5 mm long. Glumes 4-6, puberulous, red-brown to grey-brown; 2-4 lowest empty, shorter than fertile glumes, acute, mucronate; fertile (3.5-)4.0-6.5 mm long, long-acute. Scales 6, a quarter to a third the length of nut, pale brown. Anthers c. 1.8 mm long, excluding appendage c. 0.7 mm long. Nut ovoid, 2.5-4 mm long, 1.3-2.0 mm diam., pale to dark brown, wrinkled to smooth, shining
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