Austrostipa stipoides

Tufted perennial, culms erect, to c.0.8 m high, nodes remaining concealed by sheaths. Leaves glabrous; blade closely inrolled, appearing terete, to 70 cm long and 1 mm diam., pungent at apex; ligule glabrous, 2–8 mm long. Inflorescence a contracted panicle to 20 cm long. Glumes 12–20 mm long, straw-coloured, rarely purplish, acute, subequal; lemma 8–13 mm long, brown at maturity, evenly covered with spreading white hairs, apical lobes 1–2.5 mm long; coma obscure; callus 1–2.5 mm long; awn twice bent, 20–40 mm long, 4–10 mm to the first bend, scabrous; palea subequal to lemma, with a line of hairs down the centre. Flowers Oct.–Mar.