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pale green, more or less erect, 30-50 cm long; culm nodes more or less equidistant, 
10-15 per culm and each giving rise to branchlets; cataphylls straw-coloured, 
overlapping, ribbed and lanceolate, 3 mm long; culm sheaths light brown to straw- 
coloured, striate, ovate (3 mm wide, 9 mm long), hairy on outer surface and margins 
with a dense apical fringe of longer hairs (1-1.3 mm long), apex aristate, sparsely 
hairy, lamina diverging from sheath, 7-12 mm long; culm branchlets bearing lateral 
Fig. 1. Desmocladus glomeratus K. W. Dixon & K. A. Meney. A, female culm (x 0.6); B, male culm 
(xO.6); C, rhizome (xO.6); D, culm sheath and lamina (xl.8); E, female spikelet (x5); F, female 
flower (x 5); G, male spikelet (x 5); H, male flower (x 5). 
