Sprawling loosely tufted perennials. Culms to 100 cm high, branched, terete; internodes smooth, glabrous. Leaves: ligule to 0.3 mm long; blade flat, to 20 cm long, to 2 mm wide. Inflorescences 20–40 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, densely congested and spicate or loosely contracted; branches not appressed, bearing spikelets from base. Glumes inverse, smooth, glabrous; lower glume 12–16 mm long, acute, entire, 3-nerved; upper glume 10–12.5 mm long, entire, aristulate or awned, 1-nerved. Lemma 9–14 mm long, subequal to upper glume, convolute, smooth or scabrous apically, without an articulation or pseudoarticulation; column absent; awns subequal, 18–25 mm long, gently curved. Caryopsis not seen.
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