Plants to 1 m tall. Leaves: ligule 1–2.2 mm long, broadly acute, obtuse or truncate, always laciniate, thinly coriaceous; auricles densely ciliate; blade mostly tightly inrolled, 2–4 mm wide, strongly ribbed and densely pubescent on adaxial surface. Inflorescence 15–25 cm long, exserted but base usually concealed, spreading at maturity; spikelets slightly gaping. Glumes unequal, 16–20 mm long, acuminate. Callus 2–2.8 mm long, straight, sericeous with hairs slightly darker than those of lemma. Lemma turbinate to cylindrical, 7–8 mm long, smooth, brown at maturity, white-to fulvous-sericeous, sparse to absent below apex; coma 2.5–3.5 mm long; lobes 0.2–0.5 mm long; awn 55–65 mm long, with column 20–25 mm long and pubescent, and bristle scaberulous or pubescent. Palea slightly shorter than lemma. Lodicules 3.
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