Caespitose short-lived perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect, wiry, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes (but these mostly not exposed), eglandular; basal leaf sheaths shortly pilose below, firmly chartaceous, subterete to lightly compressed, sometimes with scattered glandular pits, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 6–30 cm × 1–2.5 mm, narrowly linear, involute, glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 16–25 cm long, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, effuse with capillary branchlets and pedicels, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1–2.5 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls (but sometimes loosely clustered), terminating in a fertile spikelet, pilose in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis not yet seen.