Tufted perennial; culms 20–90 cm. high, wiry, ascending.. Leaf-blades flat, 5–13 cm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, stiff.. Panicle narrow, cylindrical, spikelike, 3–15 cm. long, 4–10 mm. wide, sometimes interrupted below, with short appressed branches up to 2 cm. long; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. long.. Spikelets 6–12-flowered, narrowly oblong, 4–6 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, greyish green, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; lower glume lanceolate, 1.2–1.4 mm. long, the upper ovate and 1.7–2–2 mm. long; lemmas broadly ovate, 1.7–2.2 mm. long, membranous with the nerves visible; palea scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.4–0.6 mm. long.. Caryopsis broadly ellipsoid, 0.7 mm. long.
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