Rytidosperma indutum

Robust tufted perennial. Culms rather stout, to 120 cm high. Leaves glabrous to sparsely hairy; blade flat or channelled, to 35 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide. Panicle linear (rarely slightly spreading), sparse to dense, 7–15 cm long. Spikelets occasionally purplish when young, mostly 3- or 4-flowered; glumes subequal, narrowly acute to acuminate, rather broad-lanceolate, 12–18 mm long; lemma 4.5–5.5 mm long, covered with hairs which are densest and longest in two indistinct rows, the lower commencing 1–1.5 mm above the callus tuft; lateral lobes erect, 5–9 mm long, narrow, evenly tapered to the 1–3 mm long setiform tips; central awn exceeding lateral lobes by 5–8 mm; palea narrow-lanceolate or oblong, exceeding sinus by about half the length of the lateral lobes. Flowers Oct.–Jan.