Perennial. Culms erect or decumbent at base, branching and rooting at basal nodes, 30–100 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or outer margin often ciliate; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, firm, 7–15 × 0.8–1.8 cm, abaxial surface glabrous, strongly veined, adaxial surface glabrous to hispidulous, margins thickened, apex acuminate; ligule 1–2 mm. Panicle open, effuse, ovate-elliptic or pyramidal in outline, 9–30 cm, eglandular; primary branches smooth or almost so with capillary branchlets; pedicels varying in length. Spikelets elliptic-globose, 1–1.5 mm, whitish green; florets similar, lower floret usually bisexual, upper floret usually female; glumes herbaceous with inflexed scarious margins, 5–7(–9)-veined, usually glabrous, occasionally with a few stiff bristles above middle, obtuse, lower glume equal to spikelet, upper glume slightly shorter; lower lemma very slightly longer than upper, leathery, globose to elliptic-ovate, puberulous or subglabrous, obtuse, upper lemma hairier. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. 2n = 60.
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A low growing grass. It keeps growing from year to year and forms tillers. It grows 30-175 cm long. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped. There can be bristles underneath the leaf. The leaves are 4-26 cm long and 0.5-2.5 cm wide. The flowering shoots are at the top and widely branching.
A tropical plant. It grows in open places in the mountains. In Java it grows between 500 m and the high mountains. It grows in shaded and moist locations. In southern China it grows between 500-2,600 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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