Austrostipa mollis

Tufted perennial, culms erect, to 1.2 m high, nodes pubescent or rarely glabrous. Leaves usually glabrous, sometimes scabrous, rarely pubescent; blade weakly to strongly inrolled, to 30 cm long and 4 mm broad; ligule ciliate 0.3–3 mm long. Inflorescence usually a densely contracted panicle to 30 cm long. Glumes 16–22 mm long, purplish or green, acuminate, subequal; lemma 7.5–9 mm long, pale or reddish brown at maturity, finely granular, with semi-appressed white to golden hairs except toward apex; callus 1.5–3 mm long; awn twice bent, 60–100(–110) mm long, 10–17 mm to the first bend, column plumose with a spiralling line of hairs 0.6–2 mm long; palea about equal to lemma, with a line of hairs down the centre. Flowers Sep.–Dec.