Tufted plants. Leaves green, blades to 30 (–50) cm long, 0.3–0.7 mm diam., lightly scabrous; ligule 0.2–0.4 mm long. Spikelets 4–6 mm long. Flowers mainly Oct.–Mar.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Probably the commonest tussock-grass in the State, occurring from near sea-level to the alps, but absent from the far north-west and rare in mallee communitites generally.
