Delicate and graceful perennial, rhizomatous and tufted, up to 2 m high. Leaf blades up to 300 mm long, up to 4 mm wide. Spikelets (sessile) 5.5-7.0 mm long (glabrous, callus 1.8-3.0 mm long). Racemes 10-12 mm long; raceme pairs with 2(-4) awns 30-55 mm long, with hairs to 1.2 mm long; raceme bases terete, unequal, with 2 pairs of homogamous spikelets at base of upper raceme; pedicellate spikelets with an awn 1-5 mm long.