Eriochloa meyeriana subsp. meyeriana Hack.

Robust perennial 300-1 500 mm high; sometimes almost woody; culms geniculate, often rambling, rooting at lower nodes. Leaf blade 50-250 x 3-15 mm. Inflorescence a panicle, bearing spikelets on branchlets adpressed to the primary branches, rachis scabrid; spikelets paired or more often densely clustered on short secondary branchlets. Spikelet 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous or occasionally sparsely pubescent; lower glume produced above the beadlike swelling as a short, truncate in-turned cuff up to 0.5 mm long; upper glume acute, not mucronate or awned; lower floret male, palea present, almost as long as lemma; upper lemma obscurely mucronate; anther 1.0-1.5 mm long.