(end) Perennials; culms densely tufted, erect, slender, 6-10 dm tall, glabrous. Sheaths longer than internodes, 5-10 cm long, pilose at throat and ciliate on margins, somewhat pubescent on collar, otherwise glabrous; ligule 0.2-0.5 mm long, ciliate; blades slender, erect, involute, 10-25 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, upper surface villous near base and scaberulous near apex, lower surface glabrous. Panicles slender, spikelike, usually dense, 15-30 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm wide, the axis and pedicels scabrous or puberulent; spikelets 4-10-flowered, 4-9 mm long, rachilla sparsely pilose; glumes subequal, narrow, 3-5 mm long, as long as or longer than first floret, keel scaberulous toward apex, the apex attenuate, first glume 1-nerved, second glume 3-nerved; lemmas imbricate, concealing rachilla, 2-3 mm long, faintly 3-nerved, keel minutely scaberulous toward apex, acute; palea 1.7-2mm long, keels scaberulous, apex usually truncate and erose. Caryopsis dark red, narrowly ovoid, 0.7-1 mm long, finely rugose. Occurring in exposed sites, often in sandy soil, grasslands, dry forest, subalpine forest, or subalpine shrubland, 360-2,140 m, on Lana‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i.—Plate 227.
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