Perennial from short rhizome. Culms loosely tufted, 20–30 cm tall, internodes short and leaves crowded in lower part, nodes glabrous. Leaf sheaths smooth, glabrous; leaf blades broadly linear, 3–12 × 0.3–0.8 cm, smooth, glabrous or a few setae on adaxial surface above ligule, base contracted, apex acuminate; ligule ca. 1 mm, truncate. Racemes terminal, paired, erect but usually separate, 2–5 cm, yellowish hairy; rachis internodes oblong-clavate, triquetrous, outer angle densely ciliate with long yellowish hairs, inner angles shortly ciliate or glabrous. Sessile spikelet lanceolate, 4–5 × ca. 1 mm, yellowish; lower glume subleathery in lower part, 2-keeled, wingless, keels thickened, ciliolate, also pilose with ca. 2 mm yellow hairs, sometimes sparsely or ciliolate throughout, papery and asperulous toward apex with obvious anastomosing veins, apex bicuspidate; upper glume pilose on upper keel, apex 2-toothed, 2–3 mm awn from between teeth; awn of upper lemma 1.8–2.5 cm. Pedicelled spikelet ± equaling sessile, usually bisexual, slightly laterally compressed, both glumes 1-keeled, shortly awned, upper lemma awned.
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