Perennials. Culms 29–47.5 cm high. Leaves glabrous or sparsely pubescent to pilose with simple and glandular hairs; blade persistent, involute or convolute, finely acuminate. Panicles linear or pyramidal, contracted, spiciform, 4–7 (–10) cm long, 0.8–1 (–3) cm wide (including awns). Spikelets with 3–4 florets (1 bisexual). Glumes ±equal, 2–4.5 (–6.4?) mm long, usually acute or acuminate, 5–7 (–10)-nerved, sparsely pubescent or pilose (hairs glandular). Basal floret: lemma body 1.8–2.8 mm long, as long as wide, membranous to thinly cartilaginous, slightly ridged at base of lobes, with margins ciliate, prominently 9–11-nerved, with erect hairs arising in the lower third and not exceeding the lobe bases; lemma lobes 9 (–10), usually longer than body, with midlobe 2.6–3.4 mm long; palea exceeding lemma body by c. 1 mm, membranous, with keels ciliate for most of the length, with body and flaps pubescent or pilose. Anthers 0.4–0.5 mm long.
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