Austrostipa nullanulla

Tufted perennial, culms erect, to 50 cm high, nodes glabrous. Leaves smooth and glabrous or scabrous (sheath of lower leaves sometimes scabrous or pubescent); blade rigid, sharp-pointed, tightly involute, to 30 cm long and to 1 mm diam.; sheath of upper leaves broadly dilated around culms; ligule membranous, to 5 mm long, the margin with copious woolly hairs to 9 mm long. Inflorescence a moderately dense, narrow panicle 10–20 cm long, hardly exserted from the sheath. Glumes 9–14 mm long, green or slightly purplish, acute to acuminate, membranous, the lower 1–4 mm longer than upper; lemma 5–6 mm long, maturing to dark brown, smooth except for the scabrous neck, sparsely covered with semi-appressed golden hairs; coma erect, 0.5–1.5 mm long, in 2 tufts, the hairs hardly longer than those of the body of the lemma; callus 2.2–2.7 mm long; awn twice bent, 50–80 mm long, 10–17 mm to the first bend, minutely pubescent; palea about equal to lemma, glabrous. Flowers Dec.–Jan.