Panicle 7–13 cm long, elliptic-oblong, open, the spikelets evenly distributed, the branches and branchlets stiff and straight, clearly demarcated from the filiform pedicels, these 8–10 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a slender bristle, the axils of the branchlets and pedicels with a beard of long stiff hairs, eglandular.
Delicate annual; culms up to 30 cm tall, erect, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths glabrous below, pilose above, eglandular; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 4–8 cm × 1–2 mm, linear, flat or loosely involute, pilose, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 0.4 mm long, elliptic.