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False panicle up to 30 cm long, linear; spatheoles 2.5–3.5 cm long, narrowly linear; peduncles filiform, glabrous, expanded into a 2 mm long trumpet-like appendage embracing the callus of the sessile spikelet.
Leaf sheaths glabrous, produced into 2 narrowly lanceolate hyaline auricles 2–3 mm long; ligule adnate to the auricles; leaf laminas up to 20 cm × 0.5 mm, glabrous.
Raceme exserted from the side of the spatheole, bearing a solitary sessile spikelet and two reduced pedicelled spikelets.
Pedicelled spikelet 2–4 mm long, linear, reduced to the glumes, the callus c. 0.25 mm long, oblong, truncate.
Annual; culms up to 40 cm high, slender, branched near the base.
Pedicels filiform, c. 2 mm long, ciliate.
