Panicle 1.5–9 cm long, linear to narrowly lanceolate, the spikelets subsessile and secund on the racemose primary branches or on the short secondary branchlets, the primary branches appressed or occasionally spreading, not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular or with numerous crateriform glands.
Caespitose annual; culms up to 30 cm tall, erect, ascending or procumbent, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths eglandular; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 2–20 cm × 1.5–3 mm, linear, flat or involute, glabrous, glaucous, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 0.9 mm long, elliptic.