Miscanthus sinensis Andersson APNI* 
Description: Erect tufted perennial, 2–3 m high.
Leaves mostly basal, numerous; ligule a short ciliate rim; blade to 10 mm wide, margins regularly toothed, hirsute at the orifice.
Inflorescence digitate or a short primary axis with numerous silky, spreading racemes to 25 cm long. Spikelets paired, 4–5.5 mm long, with a ring of white hairs at the base. Lower glume 3-nerved, glabrous; upper 1-nerved, glabrous or with a few hairs. Lower lemma shorter than the glumes; upper lemma with a delicate geniculate awn 7–10 mm long. Palea 25–50% the length of the lemma.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Commonly cultivated but now escaped and naturalized especially along railway embankments; in the lower Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *CT
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the varieties | |
| 1 | Leaves green throughout | var. sinensis |
| Leaves green and white striped | 2 |
| 2 | Leaves transversely striped | var. zebrinus |
| Leaves longitudinally striped
Back to 1 | var. variegatus |
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