Straggling or tufted perennial; culms 30–90 cm. high, slender and geniculately ascending, or erect and up to 2 mm. in diameter.. Leaf-blades 5–20 cm. long and 1–4 mm. wide, flat, glabrous.. Panicle linear to narrowly oblong or sometimes ovate, 5–22 cm. long, the branches flexuous and ascending with crowded spikelets, sometimes spreading and open.. Spikelets oblong, 2.5–3(–4.5) mm. long, gaping, green or purple; glumes persistent, smooth on the sides, acuminate, the lower lanceolate and 1-nerved, the upper narrower and shorter, 1-sub–3-nerved, sometimes glandular beside the keel; lemma ovate-oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, pilose, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves excurrent into short mucros, awned from near the base; palea as long as the lemma; rhachilla-extension 0–1 mm. long, hairy.
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