Perennial xerophyte, up to 0.8 m high. Spikelets 5-to 10-flowered, very laxly arranged, spreading, lanceolate to very narrowly ovate in outline. Glumes 2.6-3.9 mm long, rather laxly arranged, not imbricate at maturity but spreading from rhachilla at an angle of 45 degrees, dull straw-coloured.