Sessile spikelet elliptic-oblong with a triangular callus; inferior glume 3.5 mm long, with or without a constriction towards the apex, sharply acute to acuminate or caudate-acuminate at the apex, or the apex minutely bidentate; superior glume acute to acuminate at the apex.
Pedicelled spikelet narrowly triangular, 4–7 mm long, truncate at the base and without a callus, acute to acuminate at the apex.
Stoloniferous perennial; culms up to 250 cm long and 2–5 mm in diameter, prostrate and rooting at the nodes below.
Racemes 3–7 cm long, fastigiate in the axils and not or scarcely exserted from the axillary sheath.
Leaf laminas 4–15 cm × 2–5 mm, flat.