Slender perennial; culms in small dense tufts, erect, 25-70 cm. high, glabrous; sheaths narrow, compressed, glabrous, the lower ones crowded; ligule 1-2 mm. long, thin, truncate, minutely erose; blades 5-15 cm. long, or those on the innova-tions as much as 35 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, acute, scaberulous; flowering branch-es few, long and slender, sparingly branched; racemes paired, sometimes 3, exserted on long slender peduncles, the spathes rather long, but very narrow and incon-spicuous; rachis and sterile pedicels slender but straight, densely villous, the spread-ing hairs commonly 10 mm. long; sessile spikelet 3 mm. long, glabrous, awnless; pedicellate spikelet wanting.
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