Culms clambering or straggling, as much as 3 m. long, much branched, the fruiting branches divaricately branched from all the nodes, papillose or papillose-pilose; sheaths papillose-hispid, densely villous on the margin, those of the fruiting branchlets much overlapping; ligule 3-5 mm. long, conspicuous, brown; blades 8-12 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous on the upper surface, pubescent on the lower, the pubescence sometimes sparse; panicles 5-6 cm. long, almost as broad, scarcely exserted from the sheath, rather dense, but finally most of the branches and branchlets divaricately spreading, or sometimes the lower ones reflexed, the axis and branches densely and minutely pubescent; spikelets 4 mm. long.
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