Plants to c. 1 m tall, shortly rhizomatous. Culms erect, glabrous; nodes 5 or 6, sericeous, scarcely exserted. Leaves: ligule 1–2 mm long, obtuse, long-ciliate; auricles slightly thickened, tufted; blade loosely rolled, 1–2 mm wide, scabrous on abaxial surface. Inflorescence c. 14–20 cm long, contracted, dense. Glumes subequal, 10–12 mm long, acuminate. Callus c. 1 mm long, sericeous. Lemma narrowly fusiform, 3.5–5 mm long, granular, brown with pale midrib, sparsely yellow-hairy in lower part, upper 1 mm glabrous and tuberculate; awn 40–50 mm long, with column 10–15 mm long, 7–9 mm to first bend, plumose with hairs 0.8–1.3 mm long extending halfway along bristle and remaining bristle scaberulous. Palea 0.5 mm shorter than lemma, acute. Lodicules 2, spathulate.
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