Tufted perennial; culms 8–35 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades flat, 4–16 cm. long, 2 mm. wide, softly bearded at throat of sheath.. Panicle a solitary terminal globose to ovoid cluster of spikelets 5–15 mm. in diameter, the supporting internode little longer than the uppermost leaf-sheath, occasionally with additional heads terminating axillary branches, bearded in the axils, the pedicels glabrous.. Spikelets 4–8-flowered, oblong-elliptic, 3–5–6 mm. long, 1–5–2 mm. wide, pallid, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla breaking off above the glumes soon after the lower lemmas commence to fall; glumes narrowly ovate, subequal, 1–5–2 mm. long, acute; lemmas ovate-elliptic, 2–2.5 mm. long, acute to obtuse and mucronate; palea scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0–3 mm. long.. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.4–0.6 mm. long.
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