Caespitose perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 70 cm tall, erect, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, with an irregular annular glandular patch below the nodes; basal leaf sheaths glabrous, chartaceous, terete, eglandular, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 5–6.5 cm × c. 5 mm, broadly linear, flat, subamplexicaul, with a pale cartilaginous margin.
Panicle c. 16 cm long, oblong-elliptic, loose and open, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1–2.5 mm long, the primary branches several at a node but not obviously whorled, terminating in a fertile spikelet, thinly pilose in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 1.2 mm long, narrowly oblong-elliptic.