Culms solitary or tufted, usually geniculate at base, sometimes erect, 40–130 cm tall, 1–5 mm in diam. Leaf sheath glabrous, or pilose at base; leaf blade flat, 9–25 × 0.3–1 cm, glabrous to scabrous, pilose or pubescent, or densely so. Spike erect or nodding, 10–22 cm; rachis scabrous, margin hispid. Spikelets 1(or 2) per node, green, 10–22 mm excluding awns, with 5–12 florets. Glumes oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, proximal one 6–11 mm, distal one 7–13 mm, 5–7-veined, scabrous, ciliate, or white hirsute along veins and margin, apex acute, acuminate, or pointed. Lemma oblong-lanceolate or oblong, scabrous to hispid or both, margin shortly ciliolate to long ciliate, apex pointed or awned; first lemma 7–12 mm; awn often reflexed, 1–30 mm. Palea oblong-ovate, much shorter than lemma, scabrous or ciliolate along keels distally, apex truncate. Fl. and fr. May–Jul.
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