Small, densely caespitose perennial without rhizomes or stolons, the culm bases sub-bulbous; culms up to 20(23) cm tall, erect, unbranched, eglandular, the nodes not exposed; inner basal leaf sheaths densely greyish-lanate (the outer glabrous), chartaceous, terete, with or without sunken glands on the nerves, persistent or decaying into coarse fibres; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 1–5 cm long, tightly convolute and 0.3 mm in diameter, rigid and ± pungent, glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 1.5–4 cm long, elliptic to ovate, loose and open, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1.5–3.5 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, the axis, branches and pedicels with numerous crateriform glands.
Caryopsis 0.3–0.4 mm long, subrotund.