Superior glume 2/3–4/5 of the spikelet, oblong triangular, 3-nerved, appressed hairy, hairs fine, stiff, acute, white to purplish.
Pedicels 3-nate, 0.5–3.5 mm. long, subtriangular, smooth or minutely scaberulous, asymmetrically broadened at the apex.
Leaf laminae 2–3 × 0.4–0.7 cm., oblong-lanceolate, flat, glabrous on both surfaces, scabrous along the crisped margin.
Superior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong, acuminate, basally gibbous, sharply keeled, pale yellow.
Inflorescence composed of 2, 7–11 cm. long, erect to patent, one shortly, the other long pedicellate.
Culms 20–30 cm., erect-ascending, from a creeping base, glabrous, nodes dark and glabrous.
Rhachis triquetrous, winged, up to 0.5 mm. broad, smooth with scabrous margins.
Spikelets 2.9–3.0 mm. long, oblong, basally adaxially gibbous.
A creeping perennial(?), stoloniferous, mat-forming.
Inferior glume short, truncate, hyaline.
Ligule 0.5–1 mm. long, rim-like, entire.
Leaf sheaths glabrous.