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Robust, densely caespitose perennial up to 75 cm tall, arising from a short rhizome clothed in imbricate, subcoriaceous scales; leaf lamina flat or involute, 2–12 cm × 3–8 mm, slightly auriculate at the base, somewhat rigid, tapering to a fine point, shortly pilose on both surfaces.
Spikelets 6–10 mm long; glumes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7-nerved, dorsally papillose and scabrid; lemmas broadly elliptic, 5–7.5 mm long including the callus (1 mm) and the narrowly triangular aristulate lobes (2.5–4 mm); central awn geniculate, 5–7 mm long.
Panicle 3–12 cm long, elliptic or oblong, the branches appressed or ascending.
