Plants to c. 0.8 m tall, with a short rhizome. Leaves: ligule 0.6–1 mm long, acute, sericeous, coriaceous; blade loosely inrolled, c. 1.5 mm wide, smooth, glabrous to scabrous, very strongly ribbed on adaxial surface. Inflorescence 10–20 cm long, very sparse, exserted but not exceeding basal leaves; spikelets gaping. Glumes unequal, 13–18 mm long, acuminate. Callus 1.5–2.5 mm long, straight, densely yellow-sericeous. Lemma narrowly turbinate, 7–9 mm long, dark brown at maturity with pale central nerve, granular to tuberculate upwards, with sparse white hairs at base becoming glabrous towards apex between nerves; coma hardly developed; lobes absent or c. 0.3 mm long; awn 50–60 mm long, with column 19–25 mm long and pubescent, and bristle scabrous. Palea to 0.8 mm shorter than lemma, acute. Lodicules 2 or 3.
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