Short-lived perennial, stoloniferous and mat-forming. Culms slender, flowering shoots ascending, 20–50 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous to pilose; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 2–6 × 0.3–0.5 cm, glabrous to pilose, short and patent on the stolons, longer and softer on the flowering shoots; ligule 1–2 mm. Inflorescence digitate; racemes 2–3(–5), 3–9 cm; spikelets ternate; rachis ribbonlike, winged, ca. 1 mm broad, margins scabrous; pedicels usually terete, smooth, tips discoid. Spikelets elliptic, 1.7–2.3 mm, hairs smooth or verrucose; lower glume absent or nearly so; upper glume as long as or slightly shorter than spikelet, 3–5-veined, pilose; lower lemma as long as spikelet, with 7 equidistant, rather prominent veins, pilose; upper lemma yellow to pale brown at maturity. Anthers 0.5–0.9 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct.
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