Main culm about 5 mm. thick (in the flowering portion), the flowering branches fascicled, ascending, 20-60 cm. long; blades 12-25 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, glabrous, the margins scabrous; panicles 10-16 cm. long, narrow, the slender branches appressed, scabrous; spikelets 12-13 mm. long, appressed; glumes obtuse, nerveless, the first 0.5 mm. long, the second 1 mm. long; first sterile lemma 7-9 mm. long, 9-nerved, acute, mucronate, very broad at the base; second sterile lemma about as long as the spikelet, 9-nerved, acuminate, scabrous toward the tip; fertile lemma 11-12 mm. long, obscurely nerved, acuminate, puberulent, minutely bifid, mucronate or with an awn 2-4 mm. long; palea as long as or a little longer than the lemma, bidentate, broad and rounded toward the base, keeled near the summit, the keels approximate, the margins very broad, incurved.
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