Plants to 0.85 m tall; shoots extravaginal. Culm nodes 2 or 3, exserted, pubescent to almost glabrous, thickened. Leaves: sheaths tight, pubescent, scabrous or glabrous; ligule 1–2 mm long, truncate, membranous, ciliate, pubescent; auricles thickened, tufted; blade tightly inrolled, 0.8–2 mm wide, pungent, smooth, scabrous on abaxial surface. Inflorescence to 20 cm long, contracted; spikelets slightly gaping. Glumes subequal, 8–10 mm long, acuminate. Callus 1–1.5 mm long, straight, with dense white hairs. Lemma 4–5 mm long, finely tuberculate, gold-brown at maturity, with white hairs sparser at apex; coma c. 1 mm long, in 2 tufts; lobes absent; awn 40–50 mm long, with column 7–11 mm long, densely long-pubescent, and bristle gently falcate, scaberulous. Palea c. 0.5 mm shorter than lemma, obtuse. Lodicules 2, slightly spathulate.
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