Plant loosely tufted. Culms 68–75 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous; auricles absent; leaf blades flat or involute, (7–)13–20(–32) cm × 1–3 mm, veins 7, pubescent along veins, adaxial to abaxial sclerenchyma strands absent, abaxial sclerenchyma in narrow discrete strands; ligule 1.5–2 mm (ca. 0.5 mm in tillers). Panicle loose, open, 7–9 cm; branches 2.5–5 cm, 1–2 at lowest node, upper few-spiculate, lower 1/2 naked. Spikelets 17–18 mm; florets 8–10; glumes smooth, margins narrowly membranous; lower glume linear or lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute; upper glume lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 3.5–4 mm, apex acute; rachilla internodes 0.9–1.1 mm long, smooth; lemmas 6.5–7 mm; awns absent; palea keels smooth. Anthers 2.8–3.2 mm. Ovary apex hairy. Fl. and fr. Jul.
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