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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
Kaua`i, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Tufted perennials; culms stiff, 30-100 cm tall, glabrous.
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Leaves
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Sheaths glabrous; ligule 5-8 mm long, membranous, lanceolate-acuminate; blades 5-30 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, folded, glabrous, margins scabrous.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences paniculate, 5-30 cm long, usually open, oblong-ovate, scarious, capillary branches in fascicles, some naked at base, some also spikelet-bearing near base; spikelets 2-flowered, 4.5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, rachilla pubescent, prolonged beyond second floret; first glume ca. 3.5 mm long; second glume ca. 4 mm long, keel scabrous; lemmas thin, hyaline, scabrous, ca. 4 mm long, apex deeply 4-toothed, awned from near base, 6-9 mm long, the awn usually bent near the lower 1/3, callus hairs ca. 1 mm long; palea serrulate on both keels, bifid.
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Fruit
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Caryopsis ovoid, cylindrical, ca. 1.6 mm long, apex rostellate, the surface slightly rugose.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 26*
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