Plants to c. 0.5 m tall, with a basal tuft of leaves. Culms erect or decumbent; nodes 2 or 3, exserted, with lower nodes usually glabrous and upper nodes sericeous. Leaves: ligule 0.4–1.5 mm long, truncate, ciliate, firm; auricles absent; blade tightly rolled, to 20 cm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, with adaxial surface strongly ribbed and densely scaberulous. Inflorescence 5–20 cm long, contracted, sparse, reduced to 8–12 spikelets; spikelets gaping. Glumes subequal, 20–25 mm long, acute to acuminate. Callus c. 3.5 mm long, weakly bent at tip, densely white-to orange-sericeous. Lemma narrowly cylindrical, 12–15 mm long, scabrous with minute tubercles, sericeous; coma and lobes absent; awn 85–130 mm long, scabrous, with column 55–70 mm long. Palea equal to lemma, acute. Lodicules 2, oblong.
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