Slender erect perennial; culms 30-60 cm. high, glabrous, or the nodes some-times pubescent; sheaths pilose or hirsute with spreading hairs, usually elongate, longer or shorter than the internodes; ligule brown, truncate, about 1 mm. long; blades elongate, 2-3 mm. wide, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; racemes 1-3, long-exserted, 2.5-7 cm. long, appressed; rachis very narrowly winged; spike-lets 2 mm. long, acute, paired or three together, the pedicels rounded, scabrous; first glume obsolete; second glume and sterile lemma glandular-pubescent, the glume a little shorter, the lemma slightly longer than the chestnut or blackish-brown fruits.
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