Loosely tufted perennial, the culms geniculately ascending from a knotty rootstock; culms 30–60 cm. high, slender.. Leaf-blades linear, 4–15 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide.. Panicle subspiciform, 5–17 cm. long, interrupted, with very short appressed branchlets, at least the longer branchlets terminating in a bristle 2–5 mm. long, but these inconspicuous.. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long; glumes obtuse to subacute, the lower 1/4, the upper 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret male, its lemma with a median groove widening towards the base, its palea as long as and broader than the lemma with coriaceous keels; upper lemma rugose, ± 0.5 mm. shorter than the lower lemma.
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