Plants to 0.6 m tall, with shoots intravaginal. Culm nodes 2 or 3, exserted, glabrous, thickened. Leaves: sheaths tight, lowermost softly hairy; ligule to 1 mm long, obtuse or laciniate, ciliate, membranous; auricles slightly thickened, with tuft of fine, straight or slightly crinkly hairs; blade erect or flexuose, tightly inrolled, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, hirsute, strongly ribbed on adaxial surface. Inflorescence to 25 cm long, contracted or occasionally open, sparse; spikelets slightly gaping after floret disarticulation. Glumes subequal to unequal, 9.5–14 mm long, finely acuminate. Callus 1.2–2.5 mm long, straight and fine, with dense white hairs. Lemma 3.8–6.5 mm long, finely granular except tuberculate over apex of midnerve, gold-brown at maturity, with white hairs; coma obscure; lobes (1 or) 2, to 0.3 mm long; awn 40–80 mm long, with column 6–10 mm long and densely pubescent, and bristle gently falcate, scaberulous. Palea 0.25–0.5 mm shorter than lemma, broadly acute to obtuse. Lodicules 2, linear to slightly spathulate.
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