Annuals. Flowering culms 10–45 cm high. Leaves: basal sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose, blade 1–2.5 mm wide, adaxially glabrous or pubescent or pilose, abaxially pilose or glabrous. Inflorescences: rachis pubescent or pilose; branches 1–4.4 cm long, close together to far apart, appressed uniformly to divaricate or becoming reflexed. Spikelets spreading, close together or far apart, linear to oblong, with l:w greater than 7, 15–20 mm long, 1.4–2.2 mm wide, 9–11-flowered, with 5–6 closely overlapping bisexual florets. Glumes: lower glume 3.5–4.5 mm long; upper glume 4.5–5.2 mm long. Basal lemma narrowly ovate, with back straight, 5–7 mm long, entire, muticous to awned, similar in firmness to decidedly firmer than the glumes, membranous to coriaceous, 3-nerved, smooth or papillose or scaberulous, glabrous; midnerve scaberulous. Upper bisexual lemmas becoming longer and narrower acropetally, lanceolate from second, with awns longer acropetally. Palea c. 3/4 length of lemma body; body smooth, glabrous; keels ciliolate. Distal incomplete florets with narrower lemmas, with longer awns relative to lemma body.
Recorded habitats include the sandy bank of a smallcreek, with Ectrosia leporina and Eragrostis speciosa, and open depressions on whitish sand.
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