Inflorescence a slender, compound panicle, continuous above, interrupted below, c. 18 cm long; secondary panicles 6, single at the nodes, erect, oblong, rather dense, 1.5-3.5 cm long, their lower branches again branched into several sessile, patent, crowded spikelets on trigonous, smooth or sparsely scabrid peduncles; rachis sparsely scabrid above. Lower bracts foliaceous, much exceeding the inflorescence, stiff, flat or with revolute margins, long-attenuate, long-sheathing, 5-8 mm wide, upper ones much reduced, shortly sheathing. Spikelets numerous, androgynous, oblong, ovoid, or subglobose, dense, 4-5 mm long, their part about as long as the their bracteoles glumiform, with hispid, often curved awns, c. 10 mm long. Glumes ovate or suborbicular, translucent, erose-ciliolate at the apex, otherwise glabrous, ¾-1 mm long, the midnerve excurrent in a stout, flat, sparsely hispid, straight or slightly curved, 1.25-2.5 mm long awn. Utricles trigonous, ellipsoid-rhomboid, subcoriaceous, patent, strongly many-nerved, glabrous, smooth or very sparsely scabrid at the apex, usually slightly curved, somewhat spongy-thickened at the base, subabruptly narrowed into the beak, pale stramineous to brown, 4 by 1-1¼ mm; beak scarcely tapering, compressed, sparsely scabrid, straight or slightly curved, bidenticulate, with straight mouth, 1.5 mm long. Nut triquetrous, with prominent angles and concave faces, ellipsoid-rhomboid, stipitate, the apex narrowed into a short, thick neck expanding into a discoid ring c. 0.5 mm diam., 2.25 by 1-1.75 mm. Style-base broadly pyramidal, persistent on the nut, centred in the apical hollow of the nut. Stigmas 3.
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