Caespitose perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 35 cm tall, erect, unbranched, eglandular, the nodes not exposed; basal leaf sheaths glabrous, chartaceous, terete, eglandular, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas up to 13 cm long and 0.5 mm in diameter, tightly involute and setaceous, ciliate or pilose at the extreme base, otherwise glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 7–12 cm long, narrowly oblong-elliptic, loose and open, the spikelets evenly distributed on filiform pedicels 3–12 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis not seen.