Perennial; basal sheaths glabrous. Culms ca. 1 m tall, ca. 4 mm in diam., pilose below inflorescence. Leaf sheaths longer than internodes, usually glabrous; leaf blades linear, hard, 15–30 × 0.3–0.4 cm, but uppermost less than 1 cm and basal longer than 40 cm, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface pilose, margins scabrid; ligule ca. 0.5 mm. Inflorescence composed of 7–9 racemes on a ca. 5 cm axis, hairs white; rachis internodes and pedicels 2–3 mm, villous. Sessile spikelet ca. 4 mm, yellowish brown; callus hairs ca. 1 mm; lower glume oblong-lanceolate, membranous, lower back slightly concave, with ca. 4 mm soft hairs below middle, veinless between keels, margins ciliate, apex subhyaline, acute; upper lemma elliptic, very shortly 2-toothed; awn 5–8 mm, weakly geniculate. Anthers ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. autumn.
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