Coarse woody perennial; culms cane-like, clambering, 1-6 m. long, freely branching, the branches drooping, elongate; sheaths of the main culm much shorter than the internodes, those of the branches overlapping, glabrous to papillose-hispid, especially on the margins; ligule ciliate, 2-3 mm. long; blades firm, 10-20 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acuminate, scabrous, especially on the margins, and some-times shortly hispid; panicles 6-12 cm. long, the branches stiffly ascending or finally spreading, naked toward the base; spikelets 1.5-1.7 mm. long, clustered at the ends of the branches; glumes equal, similar, shorter than the fruit, glabrous or sparsely hispid; fertile florets similar in texture, glabrous on the back, sparsely pilose at the base, the first elliptic, acutish, the second smaller, oblong.
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