Austrostipa semibarbata

Tufted perennial, culms erect, to 90 cm high, nodes pubescent. Leaves usually glabrous, sometimes scabrous, rarely pubescent; blade inrolled to involute, to 30 cm long and 3 mm broad; ligule ciliate 0.5–2 mm long. Inflorescence a loosely contracted panicle to 20(–30) cm long. Glumes 20–27 mm long, purplish or green, soon becoming straw-coloured, acuminate, sub-equal; lemma 9–13 mm long, reddish brown to almost black at maturity, finely granular, with semi-appressed white to yellowish hairs except toward apex; callus 2.5–3.5 mm long; awn twice bent, 60–110 mm long, 18–30 mm to the first bend, column evenly pubescent with hairs 0.3–1.2 mm long; palea about equal to lemma, with a line of hairs down the centre. Flowers Sep.–Dec.